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The Geography Department |
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East Lane Bawdsey - Southern Shingle Street June 9 2008
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Whilst to the south of the car park at East Lane, Bawdsey, is the closed coastal path and the erosion around the Martello Tower, to the north lies the southern extremity of Shingle Street, and the lagoon-filled lowlands behind, seen above. |
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The lagoons are regular in shape .. but are now softened by time and provide a magnet for birdlife. |
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The hard defences at East Lane shelter military bunkers, but also contain stretches of recurved sea wall and, more recently, large quantities of rip-rap .. and even some remnant wooden groynes. |
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The sea shelves rapidly here; the shingle foreshore is not a beach worthy of the name and the strong currents that brought this material from the north are lethal for anyone attempting to bathe here, I should think. |
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Shingle Street was undoubtedly an island not particularly long ago. The remnants of the channels that marked its boundaries still exist in disjointed form. Note the legacy sea wall. |
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