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On the Holderness Coast in East Yorkshire, whole villages have vanished. In the village of Skipsea, a farmhouse photographed standing on clifftop ground in the 1990s is now gone — swallowed by the North Sea. Thirty villages that existed at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 are now underwater. The coastline here retreats by an average of 1.7 metres every year — and after storms, sections can collapse by up to 10 metres in a single night.
The coast is not a passive, stable boundary between land and sea. It is an active battlefield, where waves carrying the energy of thousands of miles of open ocean meet rock and cliffs that have been weakening for centuries. Understanding that battle — the processes, the landforms, and why some coasts retreat while others resist — is the heart of this topic.
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