Off Topic Spurn Point - Now an island

December 5? Eh?

 

There was an interesting programme about coastal erosion a bit back.

The expert made the point that we seem to have latched onto an image of a coastline that is really only a brief snapshot in time, and the coast has never been stable, with huge variances over the years. Spurn is a consequence, as much as a victim of that.

The Thames was actually a tributary of some of the German Rivers, that eventually expanded to create what is now the North Sea.

When he demonstrated his lack of supremacy, (and love of name change) King Cnut picked a very apt subject for his demonstration for how much power we have over nature.

 

When did this happen? The liked article says :-
What next for Spurn Point, left desolate by North Sea tidal surge?
By Hull Daily Mail | Posted: December 29, 2013

Whenever it was it's sad as I always loved Spur Point as a kid. Is it still cut off now? Didn't I read somewhere it get completely washed away periodically?

 

this is nice -

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/trail-East-Yorkshire-s-Atlantis/story-27737133-detail/story.html

 

Its totally cut off now
They could get there via Range Rover and a tractor but thats not possible now
I went in August and its sad to see

 

In the time-scales of coastal movement, it was but a blink of the eye ago.

 

I just read up a bit on Spurn Point and I never knew that two English Kings landed at what is not Spurn point on returning exile, Henry IV and Edward IV or that the town of Ravenspurn which sat on the peninsular that proceeded Spurn is mentioned in two Shakespeare plays and was once a more important port than Hull before it was washed away.

 

It's all part of the natural cycle.

Eventually the whole of the Holderness Plain will vanish if left to the elements. The coastline will then stretch from Bridlington to Hessle.

It'll be thousands of years mind so no need to put your houses up for sale just yet.

 

Yeah i used to have a book years ago that was about comunities hundreds of years ago
They are now 100s of metres out in the North sea

 

Ohhh it's an OLD article?

 

It is ? Why didn't someone mention it previously ?

 

Never knew that. Only seen Spurn from the ferry, a shame for all the wildlife there as it sounds irreversible the damage.

 

Was that in the same era that the article in the OP's from?

 

It was a book on shipwrecks and lost comunities of the Holdernesd coast
And yes it was OLMs era

 

It's strange that they put a wildlife reserve on it without accounting for the fact that it could be flooded.

 

Isn't that a bit like the American tourist saying Windsor Castle was lovely but why did they built it under the Heathrow flight path.....

The wildlife, predominantly birds, were there long before it was a wildlife reserve they just bought the land to protect them (from people rather than weather).

 

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