The UK's Most Dangerous Place To Buy a House
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The Houses and Towns Falling into the Sea.
A brand new style of wandering added to the channel, and this time we are looking at coastal erosion. I have been wanting to do this for a while and since I was in Norfolk making a few other videos, I thought it was a good time to start.
A lot of Norfolk's coastline is in a really bad state, with no government funding and messy council plans, it seems that areas really are on a crazy timeframe to figure out how to stay living agaisnt the rising tides.
I began my wander in Hemsby, headed down to Scratby and then ended up in Happisburgh (which I failed to pronounce correctly). It is hard to imagine just how bad and scary the damage is on thesse coastlines, and I was really glad I had my drone with me to capture the perspective.
I hope to travel all over the country, and maybe the world, with this series. So If you have been affected by coastal erosion directly, or indirectly, and have a story to tell, please do get in touch -
Wanderingturnip2022@gmail.com
Until next time,
W.T
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I'm Norfolk born-inbred. You did a great job of showing our plight. The government and councils don't care. How comes the Dutch can accomplish solutions to such things yet we are incapable?
Desire to spend the money, simple as that. Too busy putting it in the their own pockets and giving it to donors, we the public are just an inconvenience to them.
Where do the Dutch build houses on cliffs? In places where the sea has been eating away the cliffs for hundreds of years?
Do you mean "born- AND- bred" pal?.... that one little word makes all the difference.
@@Jojobber nah im from Norfolk, of course im inbred 😜
@@srpacific I was thinking more broadly about their ability to reclaim land from the sea and prevent water ingress across their land mass.
In case anyone is wondering - the houses used to be a long way back. People were told they had decades. The problem is Norfolk doesn't have a rock base. That's why there are so many flint covered houses - that was all they had. And Norwich cathedral was built from stone imported from France after the Norman Conquests.
If you look at the sea defences in Sheringham, built after a terrible storm in the 19th century, you can see what is needed. Obviously expensive but so much money is being wasted in other areas - the PPI scandals spring to mind.
I loved in Norfolk, and well inland too - dig a couple of inches under the topsoil, and it was pure sand as deep as you could go.
I think Norfolk is literally an ancient sand bank.
Matter of interest I am an hours walk from some Cornish cliffs. In the last few years I have seen huge sections of the coast disappearing into the sea, taking with them long established footpaths. Erosion of course happens all the time, checkout a video “North Cliffs failure”. Just down the road from me.
You hit the nail on the head. They were told they had decades. But the time will come.
Slight correction - it's the PPE scandal. You're spot on with everything else you've said. There is plenty of money swilling about - trouble is it goes in the pockets of too few people
Great comment and very informative!
i bet the council havent reduced the c/tax rate for these ppl
They put it up, a few years ago they weren't seafront properties.
They'll have put it up for a better sea view
@@BuddhaofBlackpool 😂🤣
Councils are just a big con no need for them if people just governed themselves.
They need a 30 ft high sea wall there…
Time and Tide wait for no man...
Excellent video mate.
Stay safe and take care
currently waiting for someone on their 10th shot to mention climate change.
Not far from you are submerged beneath the sea, medieval villages, it's been happening for centuries, the reason is that after the ice age the ice melted, the west of the UK lifted and the east dropped, see Harlech castle in west Wales, now many miles from the sea, but used to be supplied directly from the sea, this land tipping into the North sea is still happening. Erosion is just part of it, as it had been when before the North Sea existed, it was a fertile area known today as Dogger Land, see many other posts on this subject. Like what you are doing, great site and your enthusiasm.
Doggerland, like Disney land for kinky folk
Is that where the name “Dogger Bank” comes from?
@@GT380man Hit traffic on the dogger bank.
@@GT380man yes
This is such a excellent Webb site love the drone shots thank you from New Zealand
I really feel sorry for the residence of Hemsby, the lack of investment through the years in any coastal defences, not just recently for as far back as you can even remember is disgusting which ever councils are responsible for this area have done nothing for the last 50 years. it has got worse recently, but there has been no investment in saving the cliffs at Hemsby ever until quite recently and that was too little too late, very sad for the residents that live there that were sold a dream, and had it ripped from under their feet I have been holiday with my family at Hemsby for the last 23 years and it is very sad to see that the government I’ve just washed their hands on the residence of this lovely little village. I really don’t know what the solution is I really do fear they’ve left it too late to do anything now to save them houses at the front near where the cliffs are just collapsing into the sea
100 years ago there was probably more land but no houses. 200 years ago the same. The only difference in the last 50 years is that people who sold real estate thought they were smarter than nature…
They need to build something against the cliffs to stop the erosion, maybe concrete walls.
Yes, you're right about it being too late for a lot of these properties, if not most of them. This needed to have been done at least 20 years previously, and it's shocking that it wasn't. It would take years to install sea defenses that would save it, even if there was money for it. The residents on the cliff edge need to get out while they can because there isn't anything that can be done at this stage. A few planks of wood will do nothing against the sea.
I feel very sorry for those residents of Hemsby, who did not know, that their houses were close to the sea ! (LOL )
It has been known for several hundred years that parts of the British coast were eroding. There are historical records of entire towns that no longer exist.
Another question entirely is whether that land along that coast should have been allowed to be sold of for housing (including "holiday housing" or short term lets). Obviously some landowners and property developers made huge profits, before they ran away, clutching their pearls.
One assumes that local councils granted the requisite land zoning and building permits, to allow those houses to be built there.
(More sensibly, councils should have originally demanded a 400 metre, quarter mile buffer zone, be without houses, be planted with hardy trees and bushes as a coastal park). But that was not done, they allowed house construction to go up very close to the coastline.
Concrete barriers and large rocks can slow erosion, but only partially. Planting appropriate coastal tolerant plants helps to hold sandy soil together.
In tropical climates planting "Mangroves" actually stops erosion and creates more land, as new soil residues build up around their roots. (Mangroves can grow right out of salty sea-water).
In a cool climate Temperate zone, far fewer plant varieties especially long lived woody trees and shrubs, can be grown, as they must resist both cold Winter as well as coastal onslaught. However planting wherever possible does help.
Thanks for coming to my home village and showing all your viewers the plight of hemsby
It’s been ongoing for years and is so sad
Great video thank you
It would be easy to look at those houses so close to the cliff edge and ask why the people haven't moved. But if it were my house, they'd have to drag me out as the house slid over the edge. A home is so much more than just bricks and mortar, isn't it? I don't know how you're supposed to go on when you don't just lose your home, but the very ground under your feet.
Get rubber dinghie at Dover, you will be oven everything you want.
Also if you owned a property close to the cliff it would be unsaleable .
@@TheNewSchmooThey do try. You see a lot of for sale signs along that coast, and they're not given away prices (as one friend discovered when he thought he could get a coastal home cheaply).
I do wonder at the person who built that house in 2014. We knew 'decades' beforehand that coastal erosion was speeding up, so why they built there and why the council gave them permission to do so proves that a few people need their heads checking.
@@fredblogsMaybe you should post when you've not been drinking.
@@TranscendentalDentist And maybe you should refrain from talking out of your rear
I have no idea how the bbc or some other channel hasn’t contacted you to become a presenter or to help with documentary’s. You are so likeable and have such a natural and easy way on camera. I feel you really connect and are passionate about everything you see and film. Always such a great channel and a pleasure to watch. Thanks!
Hemsby has received a lot of attention recently, but Dunwich must be the posterchild for coastal erosion.
Once the seat of the Kingdom of the East Angles, it was one of the largest towns in England listed in the Domesday book. Today, it's a tiny coastal village of less that a couple of hundred people. There was a Roman settlement nearby, but as the coast is eroding at about 1 metre a year, any remains will be a mile into the North Sea.
Much of the coastline in the area is effected. Mersea Island in North East Essex was heavily fortified against German invasion in WW2, today most of those emplacements in the area are gone or just rubble on the coastline.
The dunwich church fell into the sea several decades ago. When I was a small child. I’m now 70. You could hear the church bell ring at low tide. Very eerie.
Those are not cliffs. They are just big sand dunes. Hard rock cliffs can take many centuries to erode significantly. Sand dunes can disappear in a single big tidal storm surge. And do. It is very sad. But inevitable as the world just continues to recover from the last ice age. Simoncowan has explained it very well below.
The sea defences won't stop it. Rainwater seeps into the loose sand. The extra weight of the water drags the sand down towards the beach. The wooden palisade is desperate but won't keep the weight back. Mobile homes can be easily moved. More dramatic landslips can be seen around Ventnor on the Isle Of Wight.
Just went on goggle earth and slid back the timeline of Happisburgh back to 1999, shows so much that's gone. Great content as always btw.
Those houses used to be hundreds of metres from the sea. It's happening near me, in Watchet, Somerset. A whole length of cliff is eroding. Main road closed, houses and a pub threatened, the town flooding on the recent big tide. You can't defeat nature.
I grew up in watchet, can you tell me what pub/area is under threat.
@@Buffalo31 You watchet you!
@@cockshield ???
This guy is a natural!
I've no doubt he will appear on TV at some point, if that's what he wants to do.
He gives us stories from many places, often like he's almost a local to those places.
Love this guy/channel!
Hey thanks so much for this! I proper appreciate it
Good video. Your drone really highlights the amount of erosion. Sadly, the sea will keep washing the cliffs away. The defences are only delaying the inevitable.
Will always watch your vlogs, your passion for showing the truth, the reality off current life
Another wonderful video! You're taking me places I'll probably never be able to visit in my lifetime.
Thanks for coming along 😃
I remember the Holbeck Hall, hotel that slipped into the sea at Scarborough.
Im up in Saltburn we have an 8 mile long sandy beach, but thankfully a cliff made from rock.
Wow nice beach
yes, sand not gravel ...
I have to say i love your videos mate, no bullshit, gaumless faced click bait crap just interesting and well researched content, keep it up pal
Agree and he has class too. Not selling out with poverty porn etc
This series reminds me of Coast back when Neil Oliver hosted
Hi David, thank you for such a powerful video on coastal erosion here in Norfolk. As you were speaking about Hemsby, I was thinking... David, you also need to see Happisburgh, and then a bit later you appeared there too. The video highlighted how serious things are in this part of the world and how devastating the effects of coastal erosion have been for people here. Once again, thank you for the content. I hope you were made to feel very welcome here, and that you will come back and see us again one day.
The power of nature is relentless, both creatively and destructively.
You're awesome bringing all this to the people.
@11.10 "Walk with me Tim's house"
Really?
@@wanderingturnip yes then you were in front of it a min later. sixth from the cliff.
Another first class video, thank you. I'm not trying to be overly political ...but...this is proof that our country is LITERALLY falling apart.
Similar story all the way up the coast to Bridlington. I was at Kilnsea last weekend and with the spring high tide and on shore wind I was watching the cliff falling into the sea as the waves crashed in, incredible.
My grandma used to have a caravan in Hornsea and same problem there, the campsite is right on the edge now and all the caravans across the front have had to be moved to different available slots.
Research Doggerland. This has been happening for a long long time...The Dutch know how to deal with it and do so really well.
I’ll look into this thanks 👍👍
Geography, just like the climate, is continually changing. Pretty much the whole of the Norfolk coastline, plus some of Suffolk, is steadily receding through the alluvial soils left by the last ice age. Whole villages have disappeared in the past.
Thank you for another excellent report. I am looking to buy a house on the North Norfolk coast but I had no idea the extent of the erosion which you have shown, Very many thanks. Looks like I shall have to start looking in Kent.
Hemsby is not north norfolk 😂😂
Love this guys honesty, empathy and energy.
THE EROSION PRETTY MUCH GOES FROM THERE RIGHT UP TO YORKSHIRE AND BEYOND, TO MY KNOWLEDGE.
I’m heading to the Yorkshire coast on Tuesday 👍
Look at Skipsea it’s really bad there and quite a few houses are empty now near Skipsea Sands holiday park and some have already been demolished.
@@teanadodgson721 I'M GOING TO THE LOVELY SKIPSEA CARAVAN PARK IN 3 WEEKS TIME, I HOPE THAT ITS STILL GOING TO BE THERE.
@@wanderingturnip IM GOING IN THREE WEEKS TO SKIPSEA CARAVAN PARK.
@@teanadodgson721 JUST BACK FROM SKIPSEA SANDS YESTERDAY WAS THERE LAST YEAR AS WELL, THE EROSION IS FAR WORSE T.
Nearly all the way around Norfolk is beaches like this. Nice and quiet. Stop telling people!
You just told us, thanks!
Agreed I live in Norfolk and don’t want people to know about it. Please keep away go to Spain or something.
Ace video!! The government don't care about everyday people or their homes.
Even the Government has no effect on mother nature, the houses are too close to the edge of the cliffs, the real culprit is who allowed the houses to be built on clifftops in the first place?
It's funny considering Norfolk is so Tory.
@@janetpendlebury6808they used to be half a mile back. Look at the defences that n Sheringham.
It would cost a billion pounds to build a breakwater and the houses are not worth a fraction of that so its just bad luck and poor planning. The residents will have to show that Council knew the land was unsuitable due to erosion and should never have been allowed to be built on. These local stop hap measures are a waste of time and money. Water does what it wants.
Another great video. Thanks so much for sharing. We love your take on so many interesting topics. Your filming really takes us along for the ride. You’re a legend. Keep em coming 👍
Excellent as always. I appreciate the ending poem and the fact that you continue to make videos about things that interest you.
Check out the Isle of Wight - plenty of erosion there, sadly.
My heart breaks for lovely Hemsby. I walked all the way along that road in 2021 and it's now gone. The black house was on the other side of the road when I was there and it has been moved.
I walk my dog in Cambois in Northumberland. I've done so with previous dogs for about 15 years in total now. There are a few houses now seriously close to the cliff edge. We've had so much rain and heavy seas this winter it looks like we've lost a couple of metres at least in one winter season. One house is so close to the edge I can't see it last another 5 years. They're old houses been there for decades but with no protection setup to stop the erosion they'll be lost.
Great vlog. You manage to show the erosion, but still very upbeat about our village. Thank you. We look forward to your sunday videos. John and susan.
Hemsby takes me back to when I was younger and parents took us there and we stayed in one of those chalets
I think it's wonderful that you are creating what your heart desires. Few are so brave to follow
As you say it's happening all over but once you see it in person it really hits you. We've houses falling in the sea not far from me in Kent.
We all love a trimmed bush as they can get in the way and spoil the view. Both audio & drone were great, no crashing into trees this time either. Keep them coming and stay diverse.
Dude your channel is exploding! Always brilliant videos and so good to watch this unfold for you :) Smashing it!
Great content. Like the varied issues you are looking at 👍
Love the fact you do diverse ish content! Hope you can continue to explore whatever avenue piques your interest!
A metaphore for the spirit of the nation as a whole.
God it must be so anxiety inducing having your house to close to the edge. Very difficult to give up that beautiful view in order to save your livelihood. Great video, looking forward to more of the series.
Not surprised Tory Britain have cut funding
Beautiful & scary, thank you, loved it 🌊🌊🌊
Your poetry recitations add so much to the mood of your videos. I usually get emotional at that part! This is a beautiful and sad tale.
I think....the reason the council and government are reluctant to put money into sea defences at Hemsby is because the affected land is not council owned, therefore they don't feel it's their responsibility to provide the money thats needed, The marrams which is the area falling into the sea is private and owned by Geoffrey Watling (Norwich) Ltd as far as i'm aware.....
Good video I enjoy your content. I like that you cover all sorts of different topics. I did notice that the light house wasn’t right on the coast but a ways inland. 👍
I was in Happisburgh a few years ago, funny, I was going to mention it and then you arrived there.
Great channel by the way 😊
Hemsby is a lovely place.
It looks stunning
Its amazing, great people.
If only a top politician had a home there, coastal erosion defense would be a priority.🤔🤫
I wonder what the erosion issue has done to the house prices! I bet nobody will move out/sell, as nobody will take the risk to buy such a house that’s hanging close to a cliff.
Bangladesh has and will have severe flooding and rising sea levels. Lots of land will be swallowed up. That would be an intetesting one
Thanks
Happisburgh is pronounced "Haze - burra", although I have seen it pronounced Haze -borro". I'm Norfolk born and bred and would use an "a" at the end not an "o". I'm sure fights have started over this!
Hayz-bruh 😀
Your best stream 👍👍👍Looking forwards to more.
The government looking after everyone else except their own people. Sick
More more more ! Fantastic video realy enjoyed it . Full of Information . Keep up the great work 😊
Yet another great video, keep them coming..😀
Amazing change thanks went there years ago 😊
The wise man built his house upon the rock.
Tell me where in Norfolk there is bedrock to build on.
The very northern extremes of Norfolk there's a small area up there with Silurian rocky bits. It's why Norfolk is a nice sleepy backwater with lots of actual indigenous, native DNA. Immigrants & invaders didn't bother much with the area. @@thisperson5294
Such a beautiful place
I've been watching a guy who comes back to film every time there's been a storm since the autumn and after the high tides and it's changed so much in such a short amount of time. It's scary!
Being a local myself, I have been aware for many years that they were never going to try to save Hemsby, as it would have effects further down the coast at such places as Southwold but as Southwold is a wealthy area, that was never going to happen!
Nice content matey! 👍✌️🖖
Absolute wonderful video mate
A fascinating part of the country. If you're in the area again, a trip to Dunwich down the coast is worthwhile. Once an important port town, now under the sea. It's an ever-changing coast, but will need expenditure to survive. I don't see our neoliberal consensus providing that in a hurry. Farewell East Anglia.
Dunwich the town Lovecraft based his story on 😅.
Highcliffe and Barton on Sea exactly the same. Large holiday and caravan parks along cliffs being lost to erosion.
Erosion is happening for years in Cape Cod too, but not this bad. 🙏🏻✨♥️🇬🇧
Good video on this part of the coast, unfortunately losing the battle against the sea. My Geography students found it fascinating. You could literally see erosion in action. It is also very important archaeologically; the oldest human footprints outside of Africa were discovered here - over 800,000 years old - along with tools and other artefacts dated 8-900,000 years ago. The eroding cliffs are a disaster for home owners but they have also thought us something about the past. It's small consolation to home owners but it is valuable. FYI Happisburgh is pronounced “Haze-bruh”, it's a common error, a local corrected me many years ago.
Brilliant content as usual and gorgeous beaches. In BC Canada there are several creative engineering efforts to mitigate water erosion, floods, earthquakes etc... Its a topic unto itself everywhere and going forward its an expensive proposition
Good video footage, a topic worth covering too. We went to the isle of wight in 2010 and a car park had lost a chunk to the cliff edge.
Beautiful Davey ! I think when people dont live near the coast theyve no idea that it has such an impact .! Its shocking that the residents have to stump up to protect their houses .Council tax isnt being utilised properly IMO .So interesting 👍
People built homes on the cliff tops, what is shocking is that this was allowed in the first place.
My mum showed me an old photograph of my home town bognor regis she said look it used to have sandy beaches now its full of shingle and cobbles how times have changed lovely beach and views sad people's homes are disappearing during to coastal erosion
There was beautiful sea coming up to the cliffs, roaring and panting.There were splendid houses built up along the shore.
One feels to come over and watch the blue sea.
Great video thanks mate 👍👍
Very interesting video mate . Didn't realise how buitifull Norfolk coast is . Must try and get to see it before it all washes away
Hi Turnip. Big fan. Got an idea for ya, please go for a trip on the Norfolk Broads. Obviously do your usual questioning en route but I think a lot of people would have their eyes opened.(Might be fun watching you trying to park the boat lol) best wishes bro
Thanks!
Wandering turnip.
You could always do some videos about Britain's disappearing chimneys and the railways of yesterday before Richard Beeching axe the lines.
I wonder how many gorgeous looking chimneys of yesteryears industry have been demolished to make way for inferior quality buildings are going to becoming tomorrow's slums.
Yes wandering turnip. Do a video on Britain's disappearing Chimneys and railways of yesteryear.
Pure.
look up Fred Dibnah.
Great idea ,it would be amazing to see were the old stations were.
That is amazing!
great subject to explore!!
Great video. Councils moving houses due to erosion could also be applied to decaying former retail areas also. Space needs to be repurposed as things changed with the sands of time
This is mind blowing and shocking. To read in the comments that the council lied and said they had decades it totally shocking. Lawyers should get their finger our and start a group action against the council. This is a great video and I love the poems you read, it captures everything. I am praying for the homeowners.
I have just subscribed. Great video. The reason I watched your video is I am looking at possibly buying a property in Hemsby.
I got Happisburgh wrong too. My son has had to study it for his geography GCSE. On the isle of sheppey, kent there was coastal erosion in a part called Warden Point, theres a ww2 concrete lookout that had fallen onto that beach
Looks like the little bit of the boulders made a huge difference. It would be easy and probably not that expensive to keep on dumping that stuff all over the area to safe the houses
We have the same problem here in parts of New Zealand. The nice beach with gorse growing even looks NZ. I've also been going to Samoa for many years and coastal erosion is eating up foreshore and houses there.
I'm glad the coastline here in west Norway is far more solid than this. I can't imagine seeing my hometown crumble into the sea like that.
Where I live the coastal area is mostly solid rock, granite, etc.
Interesting to see the effects of erosion. This has been happening along the Scarborough Bluffs on Lake Ontario for years. After residents vacated, a bunch of houses fell over the bluffs (up to 90 metres high) and other houses wait to fall after the owners were forced to leave.
I have relative's there The Norfolk coastline is beautiful, absolutely discusting that the folk have to fund their own sea erosion defences !..Charity begins at home,makes me 🤬..poor Hemsby..its so lovely🎉 ty for sharing 🎉
Good addition to the channel,take a look at Reculver towers ,all the medieval town disappeared all that remains is the church towers feet from the edge , boulders are in place to stop it but who knows.
Love the poem.
Really great poem ❤
Spent a good few holidays there as a kid wasa fantastic place
great video mate you should have visited a fish and chip shop and done a little review, most of them would love that and it is the seaside afterall, this has been going on for decades i can remember this in the papers when i was a kid and im old.