Weybourne

Well, I'm the guest presenter because Dave couldn't make it because he's across the other side of the world.

And you asked me to pick somewhere to come and have a discussion about and I picked Weybourne.

Right, so we're going to give it the Wattam's Tribune.

Why did you choose Weybourne?

Well, I mean, it's not far from where I work and it's also a beautiful little village.

And I remember coming to this station many, many years ago when I was a little boy.

Should we try and get

inside? Of course, whilst we wander around back to the door, what is the local name for

They may only point to the alternate accumulation and removal of sandbanks in a distant part of the estuary.

The Norfolk coast trends westward soon after leaving Cromer, and where the cliff seems to pass inland at Weybourne, we enter an ancient valley, one side of which has been entirely cut away by the sea, except for a few relics of the further bank, now included in the shingle beach which runs out to sea nearly parallel with the coast and protects Blakeney Harbour.

Here again we find that in the bottom of the valley there must be a submerged forest, for slabs of peat are often thrown up at Weybourne, and by the use of a grapnel the peat was found in place off Weybourne at a depth of several fathoms.

When the coast turns southward again and the wide bay of the Wash is entered, we find an extensive development of submerged land surfaces and peat beds, extending over a great part of the fenland.

in fact the whole fenland and wash was once a slightly undulating plain cut into by numerous shallow open valleys the effect of the submergence of this area has been to cause the greater part of it to silt up to a uniform level through the accumulation of warp and growth of peat so that now the fenland has become a dead level out of which a few low hills rise abruptly the islands of the fenland such as those on which ely and march are built are merely almost submerged hill-tops they were not isolated by marine action it is obvious that a wide sheltered bay of this sort forms an ideal area in which to study the gradual filling up and obliteration of the valleys as the land sank and it may enable us to learn the maximum amount of the change of sea-level The fenland unfortunately does not contain very deep dock excavations, and we have only various shallower engineering works to depend on, though numerous borings reach the old floor.