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.
Six UK castles - including one immortalised in the Arthurian legends - are at risk of tumbling into the sea as climate change increases the pace of coastal erosion.
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