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Stephen Wade – Lost to the Sea – Britain’s Vanished Coastal Communities
Sunday, 12th May @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Once there was a Roman settlement on what is now Filey Brigg.
In Holderness, a prosperous port town called Ravenser Odd disappeared during a fierce storm, known as the Grote Mandrenke, it plunged the town beneath the hungry waves of the North Sea.
Lost to the Sea: The Yorkshire Coast & Holderness, tells the story of the towns and villages that have been swallowed up by the North Sea.
Over the centuries people who settled along this stretch have faced the constant and unstoppable hunger of the waves, as the Yorkshire coastline has gradually been eaten away.
As the East Coast has lost land, the mud flats around parts of Spurn, at the mouth of the Humber, have grown.
Stephen Wade’s book tells the history of the Yorkshire coast and Holderness; which the poet Philip Larkin called the end of land.
Although this event is free, booking is advised via [email protected]
