Last night (Tues, 19/8) there was a TV programme on hard-to-sell properties,
hard because of various natural hazards. One part was about houses threatened
by coastal erosion, and mentioned verbally a place that sounded like
'Haysborough' (maybe Heys,...or Haze...???), where for some unstated reason (probably
nearby sea defence works) the erosion rate had accelerated to several metres a
month!! This has actually happened just south of the new sea defences at
Mappleton, Hornsea coast, just north of Hull, where at Great Cowden, locals say
around 20 metres a year is going west (well, east actually). But there is no
place name 'Haysborough' here, and I couldn't find it in the UK road atlas, so,
does anyone on crit geog know of such a place of rapid erosion?
Hillary Shaw, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT
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