In North Norfolk, by Salthouse a shingle bank keeps the sea from reclaiming the low marsh and pasture behind it. This shingle bank was constantly rebuilt, but is now left to time and tide to reform. With rising sea levels and a heavy surge the bank will again be breached as it was in 1995. That flood was drained away, but future ones will not. One hundred years ago the main coast road, now well inland, was a shingle beach from which the fishermen of Salthouse launched their boats, and will become so again.
I have attempted in the first row of five to show the bank, the second the land behind and the final five where the new shore line will be.
These landscapes are not of great scenic, or agricultural value, but these photographs may help future generations to know what was there before the sea reclaims them.