Landslide

Thereabouts

This will be a brief post as I’ve just moved house (stressorama) and don’t have much of an internet connection yet in the new place, but …

A large part of Dorset just fell off.

The media is making out that this is a big deal, but actually there are major landslips thereabouts every decade or so. The picture above gives you the idea how dynamic the coast around Lyme Regis and Charmouth is. 

The 1839 landslip relocated several kilometres of coast, some of which surfaced out to sea as a short-lived reef forming a natural harbour … 

 

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Over the past eighteen months I have researched, photographed and written a sea kayaking guide to the South West of England; from the Bristol Channel to the Isle of Wight. I have been using this blog to keep folk updated as to my progress and to reveal some of the wonderful scenery, culture and wildlife of this little corner of England.

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