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The Geography Department |
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Start Bay Beesands and Hallsands & Start Point 25 October 2001
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A house stands at the eastern end of the barrier beach. |
Beesands barrier beach and lagoon. |
The lagoon at Beesands is protected by rip rap .. |
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... and numerous signs!
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Beesands from Start Point road, illustrating its position, its backdrop and its beach.
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The foreshore at Beeesands, and the village's protection behind rip rap and a full recurved sea wall. This area has the fishing boats and crab pots laid out.
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The beach grades steeply down over the rip rap.
The western end of the beach road has a further collection of small dingies and an impressive quantity of rip rap.
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The lost village of Hallsands can be seen from a small observation platform set into the cliff. Start Point lies along to the end of the headland. |
Trout's Hotel is the focus of a hamlet that now exists at the cliff top. Erosion can be seen eating back into its limited front space. |
The houses, or at least their shells, are still remarkably intact.
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From the edge of the cliff, through bracken and a copse, a Hallsands ruin from above.
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The ledge of hard rock upon which the settlement was built, and still resists the waves. |
A battered gable end, on its ledge above the sea.
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Three photographs of Hallsands from across Start Bay. The village was lost as a consequence of dredging operation for the extensions to Plymouth harbour, 650,000 tons, and it is clear where the shingle came from that replaced the excavated hole. |
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Hallsands caught clearly in the afternoon sunshine; the layout of the lost village and present hamlet.
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Start Point can be reached along a smooth asphalt road of about a kilometre. |
The lighthouse at Start Point
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Erosion of the headland has undermined this wall, and broken off a section of it entirely. Is this headland erosion in action! |
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The western side of Start Point reveals a further rocky coastline. |
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