Ravenspurn (Lost Town)
United Kingdom /
England /
Easington /
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/ United Kingdom
/ England
/ Easington
World / United Kingdom / England
water, town, seaport, erosion, draw only border, historical layer / disappeared object
Ravenspurn was a port located by the Holderness Coast at the mouth of the Humber Estuary, not far from where Spurn Point is today. There was another settlement nearby called Ravensor Odd.
Ravenspurn and Ravensor Odd were both flooded when the sandbanks shifted around the 1800s due to costal erosion. The Holderness Coast suffers the most erosion of any coastline in Europe and Spurn head has been slowly shifting westwards due to this. There are over 30 former settlements on Holderness mentioned in the Domesday Book which have gone due to the erosion. Many of the sediments from the erosion are dropped around Lincolnshire, leaving resorts such as Cleethorpes and Skegness.
Ravenspurn and Ravensor Odd were both flooded when the sandbanks shifted around the 1800s due to costal erosion. The Holderness Coast suffers the most erosion of any coastline in Europe and Spurn head has been slowly shifting westwards due to this. There are over 30 former settlements on Holderness mentioned in the Domesday Book which have gone due to the erosion. Many of the sediments from the erosion are dropped around Lincolnshire, leaving resorts such as Cleethorpes and Skegness.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenspurn
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 53°36'10"N 0°10'11"E
- Louth 27 km
- Skegness 50 km
- King's Lynn 91 km
- Wisbech 103 km
- Dereham 113 km
- March 115 km
- Norwich 123 km
- Wymondham 129 km
- Great Yarmouth 133 km
- Urk 376 km
- Spurn Head 5.1 km
- Gas depot 7.2 km
- Former RAF North Coates 13 km
- RAF Donna Nook (Range) 13 km
- Thorpe Park 14 km
- Covenham Reservoir 20 km
- Conisholme Wind Farm 20 km
- Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes NNR 23 km
- Humber Estuary 31 km
- Hornsea 2 Wind Farm 110 km