Cliff Top Farm, Holderness Coast

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  • Created by: lucy2703
  • Created on: 14-04-17 16:19
What is Cliff Top Farm?
An isolated farm located on the holderness coastline to the south of mappleton
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What protects the B1242 at Mappleton?
2 rock groynes and rock armour installed in 1997 costing over £2milliion
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What have the defences at Mappleton caused?
area at farm eroding a metre a month, 3x faster than any other stretch of holderness coast
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What happened to the cow?
it was trapped by rotational slumping that occurred with cow on top of land and required rescue
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What affect did the destruction of road to farm have?
prevented trucks from delivering and collecting milk and livestock colleciton
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Why was the house physically shaken?
By waves hitting against cliff below
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What happened to the farm and farmhouse?
Farm closed and went out of business, farmhouse lost
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What protects the B1242 at Mappleton?

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2 rock groynes and rock armour installed in 1997 costing over £2milliion

Card 3

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What have the defences at Mappleton caused?

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Card 4

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What happened to the cow?

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Card 5

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What affect did the destruction of road to farm have?

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