Pen and Sword History
Lost to the Sea: Britain's Vanished Coastal Communities: The Yorkshire Coast & Holderness
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- Stephen Wade
- Pen and Sword History
- Paperback
- 9781473893436
- 9.1 X 6.1 X 0.5 inches
- 0.62 pounds
- Nature > Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
- English
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Lost to the Sea: The Yorkshire Coast & Holderness tells the story of the small towns and villages that were swallowed up by the North Sea. Old maps show an alarming number of such places that no longer exist. Over the centuries, since prehistoric times, people who settled along this stretch have faced the constant and unstoppable hunger of the waves, as the Yorkshire coastline has gradually been eaten away. County directories of a century ago lament the loss of communities once included in their listings; cliffs once seeming so strong have steadily crumbled into the water. In the midst of this, people have tried to live and prosper through work and play, always aware that their great enemy, the relentless sea, is facing them. As the East Coast has lost land, the mud flats around parts of Spurn, at the mouth of the Humber, have grown. Stephen Wade's book tells the history of that vast land of Holderness as well, which the poet Philip Larkin called 'the end of land'.
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