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Easton Bavents and
North Southwold, Walberswich, Dunwich Beach and Heath - and
Sizewell
December 2008
Covehithe
June 2000
Covehithe
February 2002
rapid gullying and further cliff
recession .. also a look at Benacre.
Covehithe November 19
2004
Easton Bavents
19 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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Southwold on a
winter's Sunday morning; people are taking their ease in the
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At the northern end
of the town the rock groynes and sea wall are abruptly
terminated and a free-for-all ensues. This is where, if Mr
Boggis is unsuccessful, the sea will outflank Southwold and
eventually leave it as a stalk - a promontory of 'valuable'
urban property connected to the retreating coastline by an
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Easton Bavents has lost the
soft material used as a sea defence, although a trace can be seen in the
right-hand shot. Following the recent court decision, the way is open
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Looking back
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Walberswick
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The barrier beach
that connects Walberswick to Dunwich is steep at the northern,
Walberswick end. Material has been pushed up into a series of
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Further south, the
beach ridge narrows to less than a metre, separating the North
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A series of surges have
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...pushing the beach
material into the wetland and moulding it by repeated incursions,
leaving a miniature landscape of river features. |
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The beach has exposed, in
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... to look like an outcrop
of hard, horizontally-bedded rock strata! |
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Only as very short stretch
of the coast is affected, but does add an attractive variation to a long
beach walk! |
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Dunwich Beach
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At Dunwich Beach the cliffs
appear to be well protected, for the time being, by the beach geotextile
sausages .. and quantities of pushed-up shingle. |
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Minsmere and Sizewell from
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Sizewell
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The familiar views of the
power stations and inlet/outlet towers have been joined by a jack-up
rig. There is a yard on the Sizewell Road for materials for a wind farm,
so I am hopeful this rig is part of that initiative! |
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It was sobering to remember
that when I was last here, on the morning of the November 2007 surge,
the sea was trying to wash over the first line of marram grass! |
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A fishing boat at Sizewell
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Southwold Easton Bavents
Walberswick Dingle
Marshes Dunwich Beach Heath Minsmere Sizewell coast erosion defences
groynes sea walls beaches Boggis clay basement crevasses barrier beach
nuclear power wind energy offshore |
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