147389347X 
Paperback Lost to the sea / Stephen Wade.
Publication year: 2017
Language: English
Media type Paperback
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781473893474 (pbk.) :
Extent: 184 pages ; 24 cm
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Description:
This volume relates the stories of how the human communities along the coast of these counties maintained their struggle with the sea. From 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. In 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. There 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.
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