Thanks for posting the articles Victor. It explains my surprise to see some of my ancestors living by the sea! Of course in their day they were not so close! Angela Sydney -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 2:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ERY] East Yorkshire Villages Angela You may like to look at this site http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/ecolodge/25/erosion.htm There is a sketch of Owthorne Church in 1797. There is also a map showing the location of all the villages that have disappeared. This is a brief description about this coastline The coastline of Holderness is eroding at around 2m per year. The erosion occurs mainly during storms and tidal surges and a loss of 6m was recorded over two days at Barmston in October 1967. It is estimated that about 76,450,00 cubic metres of material have been lost from the Holderness coast in 100 years (Valentin, 1954) . Only 3% of this material is deposited at Spurn Point, the remainder is deposited in deeper water offshore or is carried across the mouth of the Humber to be deposited within the estuary itself or on the North Lincolnshire coast. Erosion increases as one moves southward. To the lister who asked about Whitby. I don't think there is any need to worry about that town disappearing as it is further north and not in the Holderness area besides the ground conditions there is much firmer. Victor On 24 Jan 2006 at 6:35, [email protected] wrote: > Thanks Victor for relaying the newspaper article. > My own BARNFATHER ancestors were to be found in Owthorne during the 19thC > and I was aware of the demise of many of the villages along that east coast but > thought anyone in a similar situation might be interested to know that quite a > lot of the gravestones were removed before it was too late - or picked up off > the beach if it was(!) - and taken to other graveyards further in land. I > know this because I have found gravestones of my past rellies in Rimswell > churchyard and in fact went to view them a couple of years ago. > > Angela Chapman > Researching: BARNFATHER, East Riding & North Yorkshire > > > ==== ENG-EAST-YORKS Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list send the command "unsubscribe" to > [email protected] (if in mail mode) or > [email protected] (if in digest mode.) > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&ta rgetid=5429 > > >