A popular case study of the causes and problems of coastal erosion experienced in some parts of the UK. This became national news in 1997 when Sue Earle had to vacate her farm at Great Cowden just to the south of Mappleton and pay £3000 demolition costs. She is suing as she claims the construction of the rock groyne to protect the coastal road passing through Mappleton, starved the beach below her farm of the sediment it needed so accelerating the rate of erosion. This video from the BBC looks at another farm in danger of disappearing, so joining the increasing list of settlements lost to the sea since Roman times.
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