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Lost to the Sea

Britain's Vanished Coastal Communities: Norfolk and Suffolk

By (author) Stephen Wade
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, Barnsley, United Kingdom
Imprint: Pen & Sword History
Published: 4th Sep 2017
Dimensions: w 146mm h 233mm d 15mm
Weight: 285g
ISBN-10: 147389347X
ISBN-13: 9781473893474
Barcode No: 9781473893474
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_Lost to the Sea: Norfolk & Suffolk_ relates the stories of how the human communities along the coast of these counties maintained their struggle with the sea. From very early Neolithic times, when global changes created the Continental Shelf and raised the cliffs along Britain's eastern shorelines, through Roman and medieval times, the first villages and towns were gradually established, only to be faced with the problem of the sea's incursions onto agricultural land. In the 1950s, Rowland Parker's classic study of Dunwich, a key town of Suffolk engulfed, set the scene for a long-standing interest in how the sea's challenge has been met. There have been successes and failures, and Stephen Wade tells the story of the seaside holiday towns and fishing communities that have had to struggle for survival. In this book, the reader will find stories of the people involved in this titanic effort through the centuries. The narrative moves down the coast from Hunstanton to Southwold, tracing the losses and the gains, not only in measurements of land, but in the tough human experience of that environmental history.

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