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Ravenser Odd

Spurn Point, East Yorkshire

A medieval port that grew on a sandbank, then vanished into the sea.

Ravenser Odd grew up on a sandbank at the mouth of the Humber in the 1200s. It became a busy port, with a market, a chapel and its own MPs, and it even rivalled Grimsby.

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When
Lost c.1360s
Where
53.5800, 0.1300
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

Spurn National Nature Reserve has walks and a visitor centre.

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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