Category: Sudbourne Beach
-
As storms continue to batter the East Anglian coast, this discussion will consider marks left by storms Babet & Ciaran on two beaches in Suffolk and ask how useful it is to examine erosion through the lens of the Palimpsest. The term refers to how a surface or feature, when something new is added, continues…
-
This discussion is the second of a series, to debate whether big events, such as surges or high waves, or smaller gradual processes, cause the most erosion. This second conversation will look at erosion at Hazelwood Marshes in the Alde and Ore Estuary and Sudbourne Beach on the open coast. These areas have been selected…
-
This piece seeks to provide a brief update to a previous piece on Sudbourne Beach, which is a shingle spit south of Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast. A public consultation was held between 1 October – 30 November 2019 regarding the policy of the Coastal Partnerships East and East Suffolk Council Shoreline Management Plan (SMP)…
-
Sudbourne Beach situated south of the Martello Tower near Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast is a shingle spit that separates the open coast from the Alde/Ore estuary. Recently, the sea has eroded the shingle spit at a greater rate than has previously been experienced. Coastal Partnerships East and East Suffolk Council have a Shoreline Management…
-
The Alde-Ore Estuary, of which Hazelwood marshes is an intertidal component, is long and thin with two main sections. The upper estuary, the Alde refers to the area between Snape and Halfway Reach, an area south of Slaughden next to the radio station below Lantern Marshes. The area of the estuary from Halfway Reach to…
