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Eccles-on-Sea

Norfolk coast

A village swallowed by the dunes and sea, whose church tower stood on the beach.

Eccles was battered by a great storm in 1604, which destroyed most of its houses. Sand dunes slowly buried the rest, including the church.

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When
Tower fell 1895
Where
52.8000, 1.5700
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

Eccles beach is reached from the coast road between Sea Palling and Happisburgh.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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