Holderness Coast - Case Study

LOCATION

• Lowaland region of England. Between the Wolds and the North Sea.
• Part of the East Riding of Yorkshire
• One of Europes fastest eroding coastlines, average annual erosion rate is 2 metres per year.

CHARACTERISTICS

• Made up of soft boulder clays which, to look at, are masses of brown clay containing some pieces of rock.
• These soft and recent deposits sit on a platform of chalk that slopes gently to the East.

FACTFILE

• 29 Villlages lost in the last 1000 years
• Looses…