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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (14076319494).jpg 474 <br> H G SPEARING ON THE RECENT ENCROACBTJIENT <br> 33 On the Eecent Encroachment of the Sea at Westward Ho <br> North Devon By Herbert Green Spearing Esq M A <br> Read May 28 1884 <br> Communicated by Prof Prestwich M A F E S V P G- S <br> For the last nine years the sea has been encroaching on the land <br> near Westward Ho at the rate of about 30 feet a year This <br> encroachment only aflPects about a mile of the coast-line but it is of <br> special interest both on account of the formations which it exposes <br> and the rapidity with which the sea has eaten into a district which <br> had hitherto been apparently but little injured by it <br> I have not been able to obtain any correct map of the district <br> older than the parish map of Northam and that does not give the <br> actual limits of high tide with any accuracy so that it is impossible <br> to say how much further the land may have extended seaward <br> when Westward Ho was still unnamed and almost uninhabited <br> A very old inhabitant however told me that the grass used to extend <br> for several yards beyond the old road leading from the ladies' baths <br> to the Burrows which was still in existence in 1875 when I first <br> went to Westward Ho <br> The accompanying map is reduced from one constructed from an <br> Map showing Recent Encroachments of the Sea at Westivard Ho <br> \ submlRced forest <br> -- <br> o ' <br> actual survey that I made in 1879 but the line of the top of the former <br> ridge in 1875 was sketched in from memory aided by the parish map <br> The district which is principally affected by the encroachment is <br> a large sandy common called the Northam Burrows This common <br> is the southern part of the delta of the united rivers Taw and <br> i 36941293 113697 51125 Page 474 Text 40 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36941293 1884 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 40 1884 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36941293 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36941293 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-04-30 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/14076319494 2015-08-26 05 55 51 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1884 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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