The spelling is Happisburgh. The "s" is silent.
http://www.happisburgh.org.uk/
Laura Neher
Geographic Information Systems and Data Coordinator
Pelmorex - The Weather Network
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From: Hillary Shaw [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 3:39 PM
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Subject: Where is 'Haysborough' please?
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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