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Cliffs on the east coast of the UK

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piaczka

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Jun 13, 2012 2:53 PM
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Cliffs on the east coast of the UK

Where is the best place to see interesting cliffs and escarpments driving through Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent?

Fwoggie

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Jun 14, 2012 1:18 AM
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Norfolk Hunstanton
Suffolk Dunwich, to a lesser extent Southwold
Essex pass
Kent Dover

battybilly

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Jun 14, 2012 1:43 AM
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The more interesting (and higher) cliffs on the East coast, are further up.
For me down there, Dover and that area - is nice.

Copepod

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Jun 14, 2012 3:05 AM
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The Naze at Walton on the Naze in Essex has crumbling earth cliffs with fossils and a tower for views, art exhibitions and tea shop. About 10 miles east of Colchester.

iviehoff

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Jun 14, 2012 3:50 AM
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Covehithe area (between Southwold and Lowestoft) is very interesting. There are signs telling you to sod off that few take much notice of, and an informal path leads up to Benacre Broad, and more legal routes southwards. Though its eroding so fast that what I saw last year might already have changed.

Alex2306

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Jun 15, 2012 3:58 AM
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iviehoff

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Jun 15, 2012 6:35 AM
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"signs telling you to sod off", sounds intriguing!
Unfortunately Google Street View didn't get me a sufficient close up to be able to remind myself of the precise wordings, but from recollection they say things like "Danger. Do not go past this point." and "Private Land. Do not enter." Whereupon you espy well beaten paths on the ground and, at least on nice day at the weekend, numerous people using them. I expect there once was a proper coastpath but its line of route is now some km out to sea. Even my newly purchased 1:25000 map indicated that the coastline should be some quite marked distance further east than its location on the day I visited last year. The coastline is eroding very fast along here.

iviehoff

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Jun 15, 2012 6:52 AM
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May be Madonna has moved to Suffolk
I was once told by a friend that it was reputed that Madonna (among numerous other popstars) owns a property in the Buckinghamshire commuter village where I live, which has many large properties in secluded estates of the variety favoured by some such people.

Now this intriged me for the following reason. Just over the road from me is a curious property, at the core of which is a old half-timbered farmhouse and barn converted to a large house, and various outbuildings, once used for a period for some high-tech business, but now occupied as a dwelling. Whilst what you can see of the premises from the public footpath is a bit tatty, what was remarkable was that it was surrounded by a remarkably robust and tall solid steel security fence, of the quality you see along side railway property in central London, and a very considerable length of it too, perhaps half a mile, since the property has extensive grounds. That must have cost a lot of money to install. But the punchline is that the external mailbox (located by the public right of way) was marked "Madge".

I have since exchanged a few words with Mr Madge, and established he isn't a female American pop star. But it was a funny coincidence at the time.

battybilly

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Jun 15, 2012 6:54 AM
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Happisburgh (pronounced Haysborough) Norfolk.
Lovely houses that used to be on the cliffs above the beach.
They're now on the beach ! !
Sign at Spurn Point....
Traders strictly prohibited. Someone had felt penned underneath.... Except weed.

piaczka

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Jun 16, 2012 11:11 AM
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Thanks all!
Battybilly, thanks for Happisburgh, love the name! both versions of which I imagine would be unpronouncable for most foreigners!
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