. Vanishing England . in 1237 we read: The sea burstwith high tides and tempests of winds, marsh countriesnear the sea were flooded, herds and flocks perished, andno small number of men were lost and drowned. The searose continually for two days and one night. Again in1251 : On Christmas night there was a great thunder andlightning in Suffolk; the sea caused heavy floods. Inmuch later times Defoe records: Aldeburgh has twostreets, each near a mile long, but its breadth, which wasmore considerable formerly, is not proportionable, andthe sea has of late years swallowed up one whole has
. Vanishing England . in 1237 we read: The sea burstwith high tides and tempests of winds, marsh countriesnear the sea were flooded, herds and flocks perished, andno small number of men were lost and drowned. The searose continually for two days and one night. Again in1251 : On Christmas night there was a great thunder andlightning in Suffolk; the sea caused heavy floods. Inmuch later times Defoe records: Aldeburgh has twostreets, each near a mile long, but its breadth, which wasmore considerable formerly, is not proportionable, andthe sea has of late years swallowed up one whole has still standing close to the shore its quaint pictur-esque town hall, erected in the fifteenth century. South-wold is now practically an island, bounded on the east bythe sea, on the south-west by the Blyth River, on thenorth-west by Buss Creek. It is only joined to the main-land by a narrow neck of shingle that divides Buss Creekfrom the sea. I think that I should prefer to hold property dari- ixm ,r~<s? Ckurf xzr. xn. XSM CAvt- ZXZF CAarf Txzr CAasf-. TXT &a*t ^S3CA^rt 20 VANISHING ENGLAND in a more secure region. You invest your savings instock, and dividends decrease and your capital growssmaller, but you usually have something left. But whenyour land and houses vanish entirely beneath the waves,the chapter is ended and you have no further remedyexcept to sue Father Neptune, who has rather a wide beatand may be difficult to find when he is wanted to beserved with a summons. But the Suffolk coast does not show all loss. In thenorth much land has been gained in the region of Beccles,which was at one time close to the sea, and one of thefinest spreads of shingle in England extends from Alde-burgh to Bawdry. This shingle has silted up many aSuffolk port, but it has proved a very effectual barrieragainst the inroads of the sea. Nordens map of the coastmade in 1601x shows this wonderful mass of shingle, whichhas greatly increased since Nordens day. It has beengrowing in a sout
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