Coastal Erosion - Holderness coastline, East Yorkshire
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- Created on: 26-04-15 17:43
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- Coastal Erosion - Holderness coastline, East Yorkshire
- Reasons
- Easily eroded rock type - cliffs mainly made up of boulder clay, easily eroded by abrasion and slumps when wet
- Powerful waves because of a long fetch and because the coast faces the dominant wave and wind direction
- Impacts
- Social
- Around 30 villages lost since Roman times
- Environmental
- Some sites of special scientific interest are threatened e.g. the lagoons near Easington
- Economic
- Visitor numbers in bridlington dried by 30% between 1998-2006
- Many caravan parks at risk of erosion. Seaside caravan park at Ulrome losing 10 pitches a year.
- £2 million spent at Mappleton in 1991 to protect the coast
- 80,000 square metres of farmland lost each year
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