Lost to the Sea: Britain's Vanished Coastal Communities:... - Stephen Wade

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.\n\nFrom 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.\n\nIn 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.\n\nThere 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.\n\nIn this book, the reader will find stories of the people involved in this titanic effort through the centuries.\n\nThe narrative moves down the coast from Hunstanton to So.