House on the beach front, Kessingland
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House on the beach front, Kessingland
Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 16 Nov 2010
The North Sea has not reached that far inland in decades and for the time being the sea wall is obsolete. The roof terrace on this property affords magnificent views across the wide shingle beach. The shingle beach at Kessingland was included as part of a larger Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in 1989. At that time the northern boundary of the site was drawn to coincide with the limit of the shingle beach. However, due to rapid northwards drifting of the shingle ness, the positions of beach and shoreline have considerably changed within the past 20 years. Old photographs taken in 1984 clearly show a field of groynes on the then northern edge of the site. By 2004 all these groynes > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2164466 had completely disappeared under a sandy foreshore which appears to precede the northwards movement of the shingle ness.
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Image Location
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52.415596
Longitude
1.727394