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Shipden

Off Cromer, Norfolk

A drowned village whose church tower once wrecked a passing ship.

Shipden was a village just north of Cromer that was swallowed by the sea around 1400. The stump of its church tower survived on the seabed, and it was known to fishermen as Church Rock.

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When
Lost c.1400
Where
52.9350, 1.3000
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

Look out to sea from Cromer Pier. Cromer Museum tells the story.

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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