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attack like never before, and what was once our first line of defence, our castles, are crumbling. this is a wing of hurst castle in hampshire. it collapsed into the water last year. built by henry viii to repel invaders, rising sea levels are now proving a dogged enemy. so the issue that we re really facing, these days, is climate change. we re seeing more and more sites exposed and vulnerable to the impacts of our higher sea levels. we re looking at more storm damage and we re seeing greater levels of erosion than we ve ever seen before. english heritage has named six sites it considers most at risk from coastal erosion. they include tintagel, the legendary home of king arthur, in cornwall. piel castle in cumbria, which is on an island that s eroding fast. in the dart estuary in devon, bayard s cove fort.
fastest eroding coastlines in the uk. 20 years ago, there were 12 houses along along road stretching out. that is all gone now. if you look at the road here, that is eroding. today there is a report that has come out today that suggests that possibly as many as 200,000 homes and businesses in england could be at risk from rising sea levels. the issues that people here in happisburgh are facing at the moment relating to climate change, erosion and rising sea levels, those are issues that many people around the uk could well be facing in the years ahead. december last year, about the middle of it, there were eight metres of road between here and the end there. i measured it yesterday, and we were down to three metres. the coast of happisburgh is eroding fast. briony s bungalow was lost