Category: Thorpeness
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Coastal storms: Processes and Impacts. Editor Paolo Ciavola, Giovanni Coco Winter erosion, as with many places on the UK coastlines, has been severe on the East Anglian coast. Locations like Hemsby saw 10 metres of dune loss in one night due to a storm surge on 2nd January. At Thorpeness, it is thought around 27 metres…
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Severe erosion sadly continues to see demolition of properties on North End Avenue at Thorpeness. It is thought over 6-8 metres of cliff has been lost in recent months. This cliff retreat is in addition to loss measured by coastal managers, for the location south of the rock revetment at Thorpeness Beach, the site of…
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Erosion at Thorpeness has accelerated dramatically with the creation of a quarry shaped section of beach, with around 7 metres of cliff retreat, replacing an area fronted by Gabions (Stone Baskets) backed by cliffs covered with vegetation. For comparison, this is the same section of beach in 2023. A number of homes on North End…
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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…
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Recent visits to Thorpeness have revealed new erosion features, possibly exacerbated by extreme high waves observed in early July 2023. However, rather than focus on features on the cliffs and beach, this discussion will consider the nearshore processes likely to influence the shape of a beach. A local feature known as the Sizewell-Dunwich Sandbank system…
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This discussion continues to look at severe erosion at the coastal community of Hemsby in Norfolk. Previous discussions considered Scarps and the effects of Lowering and Steepening on a Beach profile when the Sea Comes In. This latest discussion will consider how the tides, sandbanks and beach interact in a mobile, fluid environment on a…
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As Red House in Thorpeness on North End Avenue is been demolished, because of coastal erosion, this discussion will conclude the series to discuss whether large-scale events or small gradual processes contribute the most to erosion. The previous discussion about Thorpeness, the penultimate in the series, looked at the acute erosion on the beach in…
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Shadowlands. Matthew Green The penultimate discussion in the series to consider whether large events or small gradual processes contribute the most to coastal erosion, will look at the beach and cliffs of Thorpeness. This area has been subject to gradual long-term erosion, but it is also a dynamic high-energy location where several metres of cliff…
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In a brief continuation of the previous discussion about high waves and the effect on the coastline, photos below show the current state of the cliffs at Thorpeness, as they were on 14th April 2022. Multiple slippages can be seen from the cliff frontage, with the surface slumping and collapsing down to the beach at…
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“The winds of a thousand miles buffeted and blew, wind over tide, wave over beach, the whole force of accumulated energy finally crashing up against our cliff” Easternmost House, Juliet Blaxland. This post uses a combination of mediums to discuss a period of high waves at the chosen locations of Lowestoft and Felixstowe on 31st…
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