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reported bj' Mr. Whitaker, September, 1880,^ became 25 feet by 

 the Director's (Dr. Teall's) measurement in August, 1902. Now 

 all gone, and alaout 6 feet of the northern buttress of the church 

 dropped into the sea. Total loss, 31 feet in two years. 



Footpath at Temple Hill. — At same date Mr. Whitaker says, 

 " 40 yards outside the wood." The Director in 1902 made it 

 38 yards, equal to 114 feet. It has now diminished to 59 feet. 

 Actual loss, therefore, 55 feet in two years. 



The cliffs extending away north and south have lost more than 

 this except at Misner. The lifeboat at the Coastguard Station 

 cannot be used at present, for much of the shingle beach is gone 

 and the boathouse left perched on a terrace. Ordinary tides reach 

 the foot of the cliffs and further losses may be expected. 



Walberswick. 



The high shingle beach is cut back all the way from Dunwich 

 to the mouth of the river Blyth. 



SOUTHWOLD. 



A good result has followed the lengthening of the old North Pier 

 at the Harbour by 60 feet, a considerable quantity of sand and 

 shingle having been thrown up ; but the benefit of this extension 

 does not reach to the Lifeboat House, which is practically useless 

 and barricaded for further protection. It has been suggested that 

 an additional 50 feet might be built on to the pier, and that the 

 old jetty near the centre cliff should be reconstructed with perhaps 

 an intermediate strong groyne. The timber breastwork in front 

 of the town has stood well since it has been continued to Buss 

 Creek and strengthened at critical points by double piling. The 

 new pier, 880 feet long, erected by the Coast Development Company 

 at the North Cliff has acted like a groyne, and vastly increased the 

 width of beach on both sides of it, so that the bathing station 

 threatened with destruction in 1895 is better than ever. 



Easton. 



The low land extending from Buss Creek to the southern slope 

 of Easton Cliflf remains as before protected by a huge bank of 

 shingle, but from this point onward to the Broad great losses have 

 occurred. The site of the gun battery is buried out at sea, with 

 the powder magazine behind it now left in ruins on the shore 

 50 feet outside the present edge of cliff. The rifle range has been 

 shortened by 100 yards and a new butt constructed, so that the 

 total loss may be estimated at 350 feet since 1895, The effect 

 of this demolition is to bring Covehithe Ness prominently into view, 

 whereas it was formerly almost invisible from Southwold. Another 

 necessary consequence is that the coastline, straight in the Ordnance 

 Map, has once more become curved inwards, corresponding with 



^ See Memoir of the Geological Survey, " Southwold and the Suifolk Coast," by 

 IV. Whitaker, F.E.S., p. 48. 



