The UK's Most Dangerous Place To Buy a House

[@stevecoinitin7521]

This guy is a natural! I've no doubt he will appear on TV at some point, if that's what he wants to do. He gives us stories from many places, often like he's almost a local to those places. Love this guy/channel!

[@wanderingturnip]

Hey thanks so much for this! I proper appreciate it

[@wavell14]

Unfortunately he doesn't tick the right boxes as a straight white Englishman

[@Dahni555]

I'm Norfolk born-inbred. You did a great job of showing our plight. The government and councils don't care. How comes the Dutch can accomplish solutions to such things yet we are incapable?

[@TheDoosh79]

Desire to spend the money, simple as that. Too busy putting it in the their own pockets and giving it to donors, we the public are just an inconvenience to them.

[@srpacific]

Where do the Dutch build houses on cliffs? In places where the sea has been eating away the cliffs for hundreds of years?

[@1SteveSmith]

Do you mean "born- AND- bred" pal?.... that one little word makes all the difference.

[@Dahni555]

@@1SteveSmith nah im from Norfolk, of course im inbred 😜

[@Dahni555]

@@srpacific I was thinking more broadly about their ability to reclaim land from the sea and prevent water ingress across their land mass.

[@BuilderLee72]

Time and Tide wait for no man... Excellent video mate. Stay safe and take care

[@dalebaker5030]

currently waiting for someone on their 10th shot to mention climate change.

[@garyparker5012]

Thanks for coming to my home village and showing all your viewers the plight of hemsby It’s been ongoing for years and is so sad Great video thank you

[@thisperson5294]

In case anyone is wondering - the houses used to be a long way back. People were told they had decades. The problem is Norfolk doesn't have a rock base. That's why there are so many flint covered houses - that was all they had. And Norwich cathedral was built from stone imported from France after the Norman Conquests. If you look at the sea defences in Sheringham, built after a terrible storm in the 19th century, you can see what is needed. Obviously expensive but so much money is being wasted in other areas - the PPI scandals spring to mind.

[@Debbie-henri]

I loved in Norfolk, and well inland too - dig a couple of inches under the topsoil, and it was pure sand as deep as you could go. I think Norfolk is literally an ancient sand bank.

[@Mounhas]

Matter of interest I am an hours walk from some Cornish cliffs. In the last few years I have seen huge sections of the coast disappearing into the sea, taking with them long established footpaths. Erosion of course happens all the time, checkout a video “North Cliffs failure”. Just down the road from me.

[@garyfreeman896]

You hit the nail on the head. They were told they had decades. But the time will come.

[@BHJBHJ424]

Slight correction - it's the PPE scandal. You're spot on with everything else you've said. There is plenty of money swilling about - trouble is it goes in the pockets of too few people

[@TheKARMMARK]

Great comment and very informative!

[@rachelcarmeladams9557]

I have no idea how the bbc or some other channel hasn’t contacted you to become a presenter or to help with documentary’s. You are so likeable and have such a natural and easy way on camera. I feel you really connect and are passionate about everything you see and film. Always such a great channel and a pleasure to watch. Thanks!

[@julianorchard6129]

I agree he even has the correct tone in his voice. Superb presentation it's all there

[@Battlady57]

I agree.he is pleasant and came over very well.he has a natural empathy and is interesting.

[@simonmcowan6874]

Not far from you are submerged beneath the sea, medieval villages, it's been happening for centuries, the reason is that after the ice age the ice melted, the west of the UK lifted and the east dropped, see Harlech castle in west Wales, now many miles from the sea, but used to be supplied directly from the sea, this land tipping into the North sea is still happening. Erosion is just part of it, as it had been when before the North Sea existed, it was a fertile area known today as Dogger Land, see many other posts on this subject. Like what you are doing, great site and your enthusiasm.

[@bid84]

Doggerland, like Disney land for kinky folk

[@GT380man]

Is that where the name “Dogger Bank” comes from?

[@cockshield]

@@GT380man Hit traffic on the dogger bank.

[@simonmcowan6874]

@@GT380man yes

[@terryansell6641]

This is such a excellent Webb site love the drone shots thank you from New Zealand

[@josh-q3p]

Just went on goggle earth and slid back the timeline of Happisburgh back to 1999, shows so much that's gone. Great content as always btw.

[@andylaking]

Thanks

[@stevo728822]

The sea defences won't stop it. Rainwater seeps into the loose sand. The extra weight of the water drags the sand down towards the beach. The wooden palisade is desperate but won't keep the weight back. Mobile homes can be easily moved. More dramatic landslips can be seen around Ventnor on the Isle Of Wight.

[@just_meuploading1902]

Well, the sea will undercut the palings, so there's that. Mobile homes.... Yep, nope.

[@patriciataylor7887]

Will always watch your vlogs, your passion for showing the truth, the reality off current life

[@justinefleming7756]

Love this guys honesty, empathy and energy.

[@James-ld2jc]

Good video. Your drone really highlights the amount of erosion. Sadly, the sea will keep washing the cliffs away. The defences are only delaying the inevitable.

[@judeh2646]

Another wonderful video! You're taking me places I'll probably never be able to visit in my lifetime.

[@wanderingturnip]

Thanks for coming along 😃

[@dcallan812]

I remember the Holbeck Hall, hotel that slipped into the sea at Scarborough. Im up in Saltburn we have an 8 mile long sandy beach, but thankfully a cliff made from rock.

[@BRaff-hl4ip]

The power of nature is relentless, both creatively and destructively. You're awesome bringing all this to the people.

[@tommontreal4821]

Thanks!

[@Anglianwanderer]

Hi David, thank you for such a powerful video on coastal erosion here in Norfolk. As you were speaking about Hemsby, I was thinking... David, you also need to see Happisburgh, and then a bit later you appeared there too. The video highlighted how serious things are in this part of the world and how devastating the effects of coastal erosion have been for people here. Once again, thank you for the content. I hope you were made to feel very welcome here, and that you will come back and see us again one day.

[@joesw12]

Thank you for another excellent report. I am looking to buy a house on the North Norfolk coast but I had no idea the extent of the erosion which you have shown, Very many thanks. Looks like I shall have to start looking in Kent.

[@Harry-qy5gn]

Hemsby is not north norfolk 😂😂

[@BritishBeachcomber]

Those houses used to be hundreds of metres from the sea. It's happening near me, in Watchet, Somerset. A whole length of cliff is eroding. Main road closed, houses and a pub threatened, the town flooding on the recent big tide. You can't defeat nature.

[@Buffalo31]

I grew up in watchet, can you tell me what pub/area is under threat.

[@cockshield]

@@Buffalo31 You watchet you!

[@Buffalo31]

@@cockshield ???

[@stevetheaker7286]

I have to say i love your videos mate, no bullshit, gaumless faced click bait crap just interesting and well researched content, keep it up pal

[@Thatresellergirl]

Agree and he has class too. Not selling out with poverty porn etc

[@jankarel6454]

It would be easy to look at those houses so close to the cliff edge and ask why the people haven't moved. But if it were my house, they'd have to drag me out as the house slid over the edge. A home is so much more than just bricks and mortar, isn't it? I don't know how you're supposed to go on when you don't just lose your home, but the very ground under your feet.

[@fredblogs]

Get rubber dinghie at Dover, you will be oven everything you want.

[@TheNewSchmoo]

Also if you owned a property close to the cliff it would be unsaleable .

[@Debbie-henri]

​@@TheNewSchmooThey do try. You see a lot of for sale signs along that coast, and they're not given away prices (as one friend discovered when he thought he could get a coastal home cheaply). I do wonder at the person who built that house in 2014. We knew 'decades' beforehand that coastal erosion was speeding up, so why they built there and why the council gave them permission to do so proves that a few people need their heads checking.

[@AlGorithm-n6q]

​@@fredblogsMaybe you should post when you've not been drinking.

[@fredblogs]

@@AlGorithm-n6q And maybe you should refrain from talking out of your rear

[@CheshireCat6639]

I have relative's there The Norfolk coastline is beautiful, absolutely discusting that the folk have to fund their own sea erosion defences !..Charity begins at home,makes me 🤬..poor Hemsby..its so lovely🎉 ty for sharing 🎉

[@flamecrystal7592]

i bet the council havent reduced the c/tax rate for these ppl

[@InquisitiveBaldMan]

They put it up, a few years ago they weren't seafront properties.

[@BuddhaofBlackpool]

They'll have put it up for a better sea view

[@flamecrystal7592]

@@BuddhaofBlackpool 😂🤣

[@lablackzed]

Councils are just a big con no need for them if people just governed themselves.

[@griswald7156]

They need a 30 ft high sea wall there…

[@threethymes]

Excellent as always. I appreciate the ending poem and the fact that you continue to make videos about things that interest you.

[@mpat100]

Wow nice beach

[@anneroy4560]

yes, sand not gravel ...

[@LloydBillingham]

Similar story all the way up the coast to Bridlington. I was at Kilnsea last weekend and with the spring high tide and on shore wind I was watching the cliff falling into the sea as the waves crashed in, incredible.

[@tank1833]

My grandma used to have a caravan in Hornsea and same problem there, the campsite is right on the edge now and all the caravans across the front have had to be moved to different available slots.

[@Rob1972Gem]

I really feel sorry for the residence of Hemsby, the lack of investment through the years in any coastal defences, not just recently for as far back as you can even remember is disgusting which ever councils are responsible for this area have done nothing for the last 50 years. it has got worse recently, but there has been no investment in saving the cliffs at Hemsby ever until quite recently and that was too little too late, very sad for the residents that live there that were sold a dream, and had it ripped from under their feet I have been holiday with my family at Hemsby for the last 23 years and it is very sad to see that the government I’ve just washed their hands on the residence of this lovely little village. I really don’t know what the solution is I really do fear they’ve left it too late to do anything now to save them houses at the front near where the cliffs are just collapsing into the sea

[@srpacific]

100 years ago there was probably more land but no houses. 200 years ago the same. The only difference in the last 50 years is that people who sold real estate thought they were smarter than nature…

[@gy2gy246]

They need to build something against the cliffs to stop the erosion, maybe concrete walls.

[@HenryTinker]

Yes, you're right about it being too late for a lot of these properties, if not most of them. This needed to have been done at least 20 years previously, and it's shocking that it wasn't. It would take years to install sea defenses that would save it, even if there was money for it. The residents on the cliff edge need to get out while they can because there isn't anything that can be done at this stage. A few planks of wood will do nothing against the sea.

[@KiwiCatherineJemma]

I feel very sorry for those residents of Hemsby, who did not know, that their houses were close to the sea ! (LOL ) It has been known for several hundred years that parts of the British coast were eroding. There are historical records of entire towns that no longer exist. Another question entirely is whether that land along that coast should have been allowed to be sold of for housing (including "holiday housing" or short term lets). Obviously some landowners and property developers made huge profits, before they ran away, clutching their pearls. One assumes that local councils granted the requisite land zoning and building permits, to allow those houses to be built there. (More sensibly, councils should have originally demanded a 400 metre, quarter mile buffer zone, be without houses, be planted with hardy trees and bushes as a coastal park). But that was not done, they allowed house construction to go up very close to the coastline. Concrete barriers and large rocks can slow erosion, but only partially. Planting appropriate coastal tolerant plants helps to hold sandy soil together. In tropical climates planting "Mangroves" actually stops erosion and creates more land, as new soil residues build up around their roots. (Mangroves can grow right out of salty sea-water). In a cool climate Temperate zone, far fewer plant varieties especially long lived woody trees and shrubs, can be grown, as they must resist both cold Winter as well as coastal onslaught. However planting wherever possible does help.

[@enchantededition6879]

@@gy2gy246It comes down to cost and management. You do that in one place and it speeds up erosion in another.

[@stephnewman1357]

I've been watching a guy who comes back to film every time there's been a storm since the autumn and after the high tides and it's changed so much in such a short amount of time. It's scary!

[@susanduncan8705]

Great vlog. You manage to show the erosion, but still very upbeat about our village. Thank you. We look forward to your sunday videos. John and susan.

[@lawrencelimburger9160]

Love the fact you do diverse ish content! Hope you can continue to explore whatever avenue piques your interest!

[@Si-zy2lz]

Hemsby has received a lot of attention recently, but Dunwich must be the posterchild for coastal erosion. Once the seat of the Kingdom of the East Angles, it was one of the largest towns in England listed in the Domesday book. Today, it's a tiny coastal village of less that a couple of hundred people. There was a Roman settlement nearby, but as the coast is eroding at about 1 metre a year, any remains will be a mile into the North Sea. Much of the coastline in the area is effected. Mersea Island in North East Essex was heavily fortified against German invasion in WW2, today most of those emplacements in the area are gone or just rubble on the coastline.

[@christhompson7547]

The dunwich church fell into the sea several decades ago. When I was a small child. I’m now 70. You could hear the church bell ring at low tide. Very eerie.

[@EYE-is-a-shining-STAR]

Ace video!! The government don't care about everyday people or their homes.

[@janetpendlebury6808]

Even the Government has no effect on mother nature, the houses are too close to the edge of the cliffs, the real culprit is who allowed the houses to be built on clifftops in the first place?

[@thisperson5294]

It's funny considering Norfolk is so Tory.

[@thisperson5294]

​@@janetpendlebury6808they used to be half a mile back. Look at the defences that n Sheringham.

[@PomEllie0806]

God it must be so anxiety inducing having your house to close to the edge. Very difficult to give up that beautiful view in order to save your livelihood. Great video, looking forward to more of the series. Not surprised Tory Britain have cut funding

[@norfolknchance.500]

Being a local myself, I have been aware for many years that they were never going to try to save Hemsby, as it would have effects further down the coast at such places as Southwold but as Southwold is a wealthy area, that was never going to happen! Nice content matey! 👍✌️🖖

[@LittleVampette]

Hemsby takes me back to when I was younger and parents took us there and we stayed in one of those chalets

[@Awatchandy]

As you say it's happening all over but once you see it in person it really hits you. We've houses falling in the sea not far from me in Kent. We all love a trimmed bush as they can get in the way and spoil the view. Both audio & drone were great, no crashing into trees this time either. Keep them coming and stay diverse.

[@lovetodaylisa3967]

I think it's wonderful that you are creating what your heart desires. Few are so brave to follow

[@victoriacorcoran1258]

The stress these people feel, trying to sleep at night knowing your property is slowly becoming worthless.

[@AlastairHodgson]

The erosion is not really due to rising sea level, it is simply the result of time. It's the same on the Holderness coast of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire which has one of the fastest eroding coastlines in the world. The whole area is made up of ice age deposits pushed into the coastal area creating an artificial land area. Because it's just mud, clay and sand, it gets eroded very quickly unlike the areas that have stone/rock cliffs and coastlines. There are a whole load of villages on old Roman maps that have just been lost to the sea, some of the sites are now miles out from the land, crazy stuff!

[@edwardbrodie2190]

We have the same issue in some places in New Zealand, its unfortunate but in some places its not feasible to save the houses if there's nothing solid to mount the erosion defences to. Those giant lego blocks they are putting place look great but give it a year or two and a couple of decent storms and the sand will wash out from underneath them and they will fail. Their best bet would be to plant coastal grasses which holds the sand in place and protects it from the wind but it takes years.

[@susiedominey6272]

Nobody wanted to live in Sandbanks when I was growing up, they said the peninsula would be swallowed by the sea. Look at it now! Loved to death, and hideous looking mansions. Beach still sublime. Loved this video

[@magsk6721]

Beautiful Davey ! I think when people dont live near the coast theyve no idea that it has such an impact .! Its shocking that the residents have to stump up to protect their houses .Council tax isnt being utilised properly IMO .So interesting 👍

[@janetpendlebury6808]

People built homes on the cliff tops, what is shocking is that this was allowed in the first place.

[@ksweet696]

Your poetry recitations add so much to the mood of your videos. I usually get emotional at that part! This is a beautiful and sad tale.

[@mckgregson8883]

Thanks

[@wanderingturnip]

Thanks so much 😀

[@philoldfield707]

You need to visit the East Coast in Yorkshire Skipsea and surrounding area it's not just Norfolk it's happening all down that coastline

[@Toenala]

I walk my dog in Cambois in Northumberland. I've done so with previous dogs for about 15 years in total now. There are a few houses now seriously close to the cliff edge. We've had so much rain and heavy seas this winter it looks like we've lost a couple of metres at least in one winter season. One house is so close to the edge I can't see it last another 5 years. They're old houses been there for decades but with no protection setup to stop the erosion they'll be lost.

[@RandallSlick]

A fascinating part of the country. If you're in the area again, a trip to Dunwich down the coast is worthwhile. Once an important port town, now under the sea. It's an ever-changing coast, but will need expenditure to survive. I don't see our neoliberal consensus providing that in a hurry. Farewell East Anglia.

[@paulatreides0777]

Dunwich the town Lovecraft based his story on 😅.

[@Greenz1100]

This is mind blowing and shocking. To read in the comments that the council lied and said they had decades it totally shocking. Lawyers should get their finger our and start a group action against the council. This is a great video and I love the poems you read, it captures everything. I am praying for the homeowners.

[@lucifermorningstar4606]

In the village of Easington on the east coast, there is a church with a bell. That bell was moved from 1 village to the other over the past 400 years as they disappeared into the North sea.

[@robert15john]

Thanks

[@wanderingturnip]

Legend 👏👏👏

[@sandiemcglynn6360]

1990 Holbeck Hall, Scarborough, fell into the sea. Check out the area, along that coast going South. Sad to see.

[@adamski9370]

Hi Turnip. Big fan. Got an idea for ya, please go for a trip on the Norfolk Broads. Obviously do your usual questioning en route but I think a lot of people would have their eyes opened.(Might be fun watching you trying to park the boat lol) best wishes bro

[@GrumpyOldGamer9221]

Good video footage, a topic worth covering too. We went to the isle of wight in 2010 and a car park had lost a chunk to the cliff edge.

[@sarahtaylor2492]

Crying shame that the council and government won’t help Such a beautiful place with beautiful houses, very sad for these people.

[@Jim-withaT]

Another great video. Thanks so much for sharing. We love your take on so many interesting topics. Your filming really takes us along for the ride. You’re a legend. Keep em coming 👍

[@petedixon7590]

Very interesting video mate . Didn't realise how buitifull Norfolk coast is . Must try and get to see it before it all washes away

[@independentpuppy7520]

All along that east coast is getting swallowed by the sea. Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, also Humber and Yorkshire. Lots of lost villages under the sea now. The origional Skegness in Lincs is underwater. All around The Wash is reclaimed land.

[@ronfast703]

Good video I enjoy your content. I like that you cover all sorts of different topics. I did notice that the light house wasn’t right on the coast but a ways inland. 👍

[@Swaggerlot]

Geography, just like the climate, is continually changing. Pretty much the whole of the Norfolk coastline, plus some of Suffolk, is steadily receding through the alluvial soils left by the last ice age. Whole villages have disappeared in the past.

[@justanotherhappyhumanist8832]

That must be terrifying on a really stormy night.

[@olilyndale]

Dude your channel is exploding! Always brilliant videos and so good to watch this unfold for you :) Smashing it!

[@jeffreywilliams506]

They should build a seawall ! The seawall in Galveston Texas is 122 years old and doing just fine.

[@danieledwards9856]

The land and property isn’t valuable enough to spend that much protecting it.

[@Fat_Cat_747]

I remember the Viz comic had a spoof advert for Filey Fax, a sort of Filo-Fax full of info about Filey Imagine a holiday in Filey ! Even better than Weston Super Mare !

[@mickparker3726]

Highcliffe and Barton on Sea exactly the same. Large holiday and caravan parks along cliffs being lost to erosion.

[@surreygirl2075]

This happened in sussex lovely old cottages and a nice cafe with a museum the cliff staring to fall very sad and beauiful views also in kent as well a whole village cracks in the school and big lovely house with a nice garden its heart breaking😢

[@Hadesdetecting]

Good addition to the channel,take a look at Reculver towers ,all the medieval town disappeared all that remains is the church towers feet from the edge , boulders are in place to stop it but who knows.

[@sandytw5229]

Beautiful & scary, thank you, loved it 🌊🌊🌊

[@peterswatton7400]

We have the same problem here in parts of New Zealand. The nice beach with gorse growing even looks NZ. I've also been going to Samoa for many years and coastal erosion is eating up foreshore and houses there.

[@Latbirget]

My heart breaks for lovely Hemsby. I walked all the way along that road in 2021 and it's now gone. The black house was on the other side of the road when I was there and it has been moved.

[@endafinlay8001]

Good video on this part of the coast, unfortunately losing the battle against the sea. My Geography students found it fascinating. You could literally see erosion in action. It is also very important archaeologically; the oldest human footprints outside of Africa were discovered here - over 800,000 years old - along with tools and other artefacts dated 8-900,000 years ago. The eroding cliffs are a disaster for home owners but they have also thought us something about the past. It's small consolation to home owners but it is valuable. FYI Happisburgh is pronounced “Haze-bruh”, it's a common error, a local corrected me many years ago.

[@pokeman747]

This series reminds me of Coast back when Neil Oliver hosted

[@brianwalsh2419]

Great video. Councils moving houses due to erosion could also be applied to decaying former retail areas also. Space needs to be repurposed as things changed with the sands of time

[@vivmatz1189]

Wow your at my fav place love love norfolk its so very sad I know about it ❤❤❤❤❤

[@cbrider726]

Your best stream 👍👍👍Looking forwards to more.

[@1SteveSmith]

Another first class video, thank you. I'm not trying to be overly political ...but...this is proof that our country is LITERALLY falling apart.

[@katewolfspirit6722]

Check out the Isle of Wight - plenty of erosion there, sadly.

[@MaiDove3]

Erosion is happening for years in Cape Cod too, but not this bad. 🙏🏻✨♥️🇬🇧

[@Izzi-n5t]

I grew up in the eighties in Folkestone in Kent in a house on the edge of the cliff. The cliff path that went down to the promenade and also to the old railway station and old channel tunnel works eroded very fast, in 1987 you could walk down from the top to the beach in 25 minutes and then after the storm in 1987 and then again in 1989 it eroded within about six years so that you could not even find the way all the way down. Than it was shut off in the 2000s because it was far too dangerous to go anywhere near it. It eroded so fast that every time you walked down it you had to find a new way because the path just disappeared.

[@alice86142]

I was in Happisburgh a few years ago, funny, I was going to mention it and then you arrived there. Great channel by the way 😊

[@peachyllama722]

I got Happisburgh wrong too. My son has had to study it for his geography GCSE. On the isle of sheppey, kent there was coastal erosion in a part called Warden Point, theres a ww2 concrete lookout that had fallen onto that beach

[@genuinefreewilly5706]

Brilliant content as usual and gorgeous beaches. In BC Canada there are several creative engineering efforts to mitigate water erosion, floods, earthquakes etc... Its a topic unto itself everywhere and going forward its an expensive proposition

[@ErictheRedCantona]

Brilliant video and topic - really well made and informative.

[@marksargent2440]

My mum showed me an old photograph of my home town bognor regis she said look it used to have sandy beaches now its full of shingle and cobbles how times have changed lovely beach and views sad people's homes are disappearing during to coastal erosion

[@michaelobrien9825]

THE EROSION PRETTY MUCH GOES FROM THERE RIGHT UP TO YORKSHIRE AND BEYOND, TO MY KNOWLEDGE.

[@wanderingturnip]

I’m heading to the Yorkshire coast on Tuesday 👍

[@teanadodgson721]

Look at Skipsea it’s really bad there and quite a few houses are empty now near Skipsea Sands holiday park and some have already been demolished.

[@michaelobrien9825]

@@teanadodgson721 I'M GOING TO THE LOVELY SKIPSEA CARAVAN PARK IN 3 WEEKS TIME, I HOPE THAT ITS STILL GOING TO BE THERE.

[@michaelobrien9825]

@@wanderingturnip IM GOING IN THREE WEEKS TO SKIPSEA CARAVAN PARK.

[@michaelobrien9825]

@@teanadodgson721 JUST BACK FROM SKIPSEA SANDS YESTERDAY WAS THERE LAST YEAR AS WELL, THE EROSION IS FAR WORSE T.

[@judeec9624]

The fury of the ocean is nothing to be denied. Where I grew up, there was nothing standing between our property (and the area of Watch Hill, Rhode Island USA) and the full power of the Atlantic Ocean. The Hurricane of 1938 nearly wiped my hometown off the map - and changed the coastline of the surrounding area. Excellent job, as usual @wanderingturnip!! (By the way - I couldn't scroll through all the comments, but can someone tell me how this coastline got so eroded [besides the power of the ocean] - a series of bad storms?)

[@Saints_Mariner]

Great content. Like the varied issues you are looking at 👍

[@shahjhanhaider26]

There was beautiful sea coming up to the cliffs, roaring and panting.There were splendid houses built up along the shore. One feels to come over and watch the blue sea.

[@Glenni91N]

I'm glad the coastline here in west Norway is far more solid than this. I can't imagine seeing my hometown crumble into the sea like that. Where I live the coastal area is mostly solid rock, granite, etc.

[@MaxLane-l4u]

I live in cleethorpes now but that beach is still the best I have fond memories of it as a kid .

[@CallumDixon22169]

Wow, I used to stay in that caravan park all the time as a kid - California Cliffs. I even stayed in one of the holiday homes right by the edge. Looks like it has eroded a lot more since then, and this was only 25ish years ago. I'd love to go back someday but I doubt it lives up to the memories 😂

[@argopunk]

Interesting to see the effects of erosion. This has been happening along the Scarborough Bluffs on Lake Ontario for years. After residents vacated, a bunch of houses fell over the bluffs (up to 90 metres high) and other houses wait to fall after the owners were forced to leave.

[@MartinBrez]

Holderness Coast near Hull is interesting. Many areas lost to coastal erosion around Withernsea and Hornsea.

[@TimmmmmyD]

Hemsby is a lovely place.

[@HaramXL]

It looks stunning

[@susanduncan8705]

Its amazing, great people.

[@wideyxyz2271]

Research Doggerland. This has been happening for a long long time...The Dutch know how to deal with it and do so really well.

[@wanderingturnip]

I’ll look into this thanks 👍👍

[@tomkent4656]

They weren't close to the edge when they were built!

[@CoralBell-ui6my]

PLEASE do a video on the Holderness Coastline and the impact of erosion/ sea defences they have put in place! I’m a Geography teacher & the case study videos on KZbin are so outdated now but the same style video as this but for Holderness would be perfect!

[@ianrazey8412]

I have been going on holiday every year since 2020 to Hemsby. Staying at Sundowner Holiday Park. Big changes year on year. I have taken photographs from the beach and what was The Marrams. Also walked to Winterton and California. Photos on the Flickr images site.

[@Roger_Kirk]

Love Hemsby! Wen there for my first ever holiday when I was 8. Went back for the first time since last year to take my kids. Still a great place, but so much of the beach the dunes have gone in the years since I went as a child.

[@lisaodd3196]

You should visit the Holderness, East Yorkshire. The existing Spurn peninsula was a town occupied by pirates, bit like a medieval Mos Islay (apologies to Star Wars fans if that's spelt wrong). That was all washed away by a tidal surge in the 14/15th centuries. Just like Norfolk, there's huge erosion at two metres a year, many villages have been lost and houses are falling in the sea right as I type! Ace video David, fascinating subject too. Look up Ravenser Odd, really interesting history.

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Whilst climate change exacebates the problem coastal erosion on the east coast has been going on for centuries and indeed millennia. There are many accounts of lost medieval villages and it is estimated that two miles have been eroded since Roman times. Coastal defences paid for by local councils/government can only hold this back for so long and it can only ever be considered a programme of 'managed retreat'. The sea will do what the sea wants to do. We are King Canute in comparison.