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Southwold to Kessingland via Easton Bavents and Covehithe
5 September 2009
Covehithe
June 2000
Covehithe
February 2002
rapid gullying and further cliff
recession .. also a look at Benacre.
Covehithe November 19
2004
Easton Bavents
November 2004
Easton Bavents and North Southwold
June 2006
Easton Bavents,
Southwold, Dunwich & Sizewell December 2008
Southwold to Kessingland via Easton Bavents and Covehithe
5 September 2009
1 - Southwold pier and town defences to Mr
Boggis' defences
2 - Easton cliffs and Broad to Covehithe
Broad
3 - Covehithe cliffs to Benacre
Broad and towards Kessingland
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1- Southwold pier and town defences to
Easton Broad |
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Southwold looking elegant
against a fine morning sky .. and even affording an excellent view over
the groynes down the coast to Sizewell 'B' (dome) and 'A' (square block
now being decommissioned) nuclear power stations. |
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A sandy, if narrow,
beach fronts the town to the south of the pier, which was
already waiting for visitors .. and with a sculpture to admire! |
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The town laid out
in the morning sun ... again! |
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Shoreline and
townscape .. .with the famous and iconic lighthouse. |
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To the north of the
pier lies the large pier car park, the last of the hard defences
.. and the cliffs of Easton Bavents, complete with houses
nearing their inevitable demolition. |
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The famously
expensive beach huts of Southwold, changing hands for anything
up to £20,000, and now protected by new rock groynes and a
reseeded beach. |
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The rising tide is
already making shoreline progress impossible; the new beach has
been lowered! |
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Comprehensive
defence works at Southwold were completed in 2006 (see
June 2006)
including beach nourishment and rock groynes. |
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Sheet piling protects the
foot of the stepped and recurved sea wall, whilst a narrow shingle beach
is protected by new rock groynes. |
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The northern end of
the sea wall has a jumble of tetrapods fronting a crumbling
section of cliff. |
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The ochre cliffs of Easton
Bavents. On the left is some of the last of Mr Peter Boggis's bench of
soil to protect the cliffs, which continue to erode with fresh falls,
centre, and a further remnant of topsoil, right. |
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The last house in Easton
Lane, which approaches the cliffs almost at right angles, with debris on
the beach from previous episodes. |
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Easton cliffs have
not been eroded, except for a little basal sculpting, by virtue
of a lush growth of vegetation extending up to the free face.
Almost there! The bicycle and its owner had come from at least
Covehithe. |
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Suffolk Southwold Pier
Sizewell lighthouse Easton Bavents Covehithe Benacre Broad coasts
erosion defences Peter Boggis home made cliffs sea wall tetrapods
recurved rock armour rip rap groynes nuclear power station beach huts |
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