Holderness Flashcards
Boulder clay Retreats … M a year
2
… Long
50km
…. Eroding coastline
Fastest in Western Europe
Ring borough farm retreated
75 acres in 75 years
SSSI conservation.
Spurn point birds…
Ring plover.little tern
Flam borough head birds
Puffins, guillemots
Places on coast
Withensee, easington, Bridlington, hornsee, Grimsby
River
Humber by hull
Tunstall caravan park lost
26m of coastline in a 2008 spring storm
Management
Lighthouse
Defences increase erosion in
Places like farmland
Farmers
Diversify, no compensation loss of land, rollback
Bridlington hornsee writhe see
Sea walls groynes Rock armour
Hornsee
Timber groynes. 150 years
Mappleton
£1.9 mil to build, 34 km from cliff, 16000 tonnes of boulders. Gabions
Easington
25% of nations gas
Kilnsea
Residents built own flood bank
Rollback
Sandy banks caravan park, every 4 caravans lost. Gets 5 new ones
ABP
guide pilots up Humber, decreases risk of crashes
… Villages destroyed since Roman times
14
Flam borough head- .Rest Boulder clay
Chalk
Weathering
Makes erosion easier to happen
Where
East Yorkshire, NE England
Farmland lost a year
80,000m
Since Roman times … Km eroded
4
How much protected
11.4km