[Sussex] Birling Gap cliff rock slide
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- Jul 10, 2003
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That is a cracking link. I'm pretty sure that chalk path in the foreground is the one that's just gone over the edge
Turn through 90° and that's the belle vue lighthouse B&B, I wouldn't try and book beyond Friday night
Exactly but it’s incredible there.
Met this environmentalist down there who spends days/weeks down there. Bhassexplore.com
Sorrel
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Back in the 1990s I used to walk fairly often round under the cliffs from Birling Gap round to Eastbourne and back, paying a lot of attention to the tide before setting off. It's really lovely there, but not an easy walk. There was always a range of ages on the fallen chalk, but this fall seems bigger than things I normally saw then.
What's the rate of erosion I wonder?
What's the rate of erosion I wonder?
https://www.bhassexplore.com/
Collecting tons of plastic and having it taken out by boat every few months. He’s done 3 driftwood sculptures, a centre of the universe pyramid. Sleeps in the caves
and has a Lara Croft dressed assistant. It’s a different world!I recommend the walk. Have to plan around low tide and allow 3 hours from edge of Eastbourne.
https://www.beachyheadlighthouse.co.uk/walking-to-the-beachy-head-lighthouse/
Worried Man Blues
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Lighthouse in the air B&B ?
Wardy's twin
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- Oct 21, 2014
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That is a cracking link. I'm pretty sure that chalk path in the foreground is the one that's just gone over the edge
Turn through 90° and that's the belle vue lighthouse B&B, I wouldn't try and book beyond Friday night
look down at the ground and see the shadow of the alien that made this
- Aug 24, 2020
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58 cm a year at Birling Gap:
https://www.groundsure.com/resources/coastal-retreat-at-birling-gap/
22-32 cm a year at Seaford Head and Beachy Head
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/175967/cliff-erosion-rates-sussex-have-accelerated/
- Jul 10, 2003
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I believe there's only the three leftmost terraced houses left now (together with the cafe on the far left of the pic) Everything in the foreground is long gone.
Wardy's twin
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- Oct 21, 2014
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i watched a documentary about erosion on the east coast , a guy bought a place 30 metres from the edge based on the previous average erosion which was a metre a year giving him 30 years. he had no family and was 60+ and thought that would do him. The year after he bought it the cliff was eroded by 30 metres and his house with it. Whilst the averages a good stat they are not rules that nature follows.
- Aug 24, 2020
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That's a very good point. That bloke was seriously unlucky though. These events are, in geographic terms, episodic. I remember reading about a water hole that pre-Roman farmers dug in the chalk hills a good kilometre from the cliffline. It has now been eroded away, so the long term rate of erosion (yes, I know, I'm making assumptions here), is 1km+ in 2000+ years. That rate can change of course.
Raleigh Chopper
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dejavuatbtn
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Looking from the side it looks like the ground starts slipping away northwards quite sharply, so I think it’s goose has been cooked.