The UK Towns Falling Into the Sea Right Now

Somewhere on the coast of Britain tonight, a house is standing at the very edge of a cliff — its garden already gone, its neighbours already demolished — and the people inside know that within a few short years it will be at the bottom of the sea. This is happening right now, all around the UK. The sea is winning. Entire villages, homes, roads, and churches are being swallowed by coastal erosion and rising sea levels — on the fastest-eroding coastline in Europe. This is the story of Britain's disappearing coast, the villages being lost to the sea, and the one Welsh village that has been given an official death sentence. In this video, we explore: → Happisburgh, Norfolk — one of the fastest-eroding coastlines in Britain, and the 850,000-year-old human footprints the sea revealed and erased → Hemsby — clifftop homes torn down and swallowed overnight in the storms → The Holderness Coast, Yorkshire — the fastest-eroding coast in Europe, and the villages disappearing with it → Ravenser Odd — the lost medieval town known as "Yorkshire's Atlantis" → Spurn Point, Dunwich & the lost villages of Norfolk — Britain's drowned history → Covehithe, Birling Gap & Walton-on-the-Naze — the churches, cliffs, and landmarks on the brink → Doggerland — the entire prehistoric country that lies drowned beneath the North Sea → And the story of Fairbourne, Wales — the first UK village set to be abandoned to the sea because of climate change The map of Britain that we think of as fixed and permanent is quietly being redrawn by the waves — and these are the communities on the front line. 👉 Subscribe for more of Britain's forgotten, abandoned, and disappearing places — a new journey every week. #CoastalErosion #Fairbourne #UKVillages #LostToTheSea #ClimateChange #AbandonedBritain #Happisburgh #Holderness #Doggerland #UKHistory #RisingSeas #GhostVillages #Norfolk #Yorkshire #BritishHistory villages swallowed by the sea, uk coastal erosion, coastal erosion uk, fairbourne wales, villages lost to the sea, abandoned villages uk, happisburgh erosion, hemsby cliff collapse, holderness coast erosion, ravenser odd, doggerland, dunwich, uk villages disappearing, rising sea levels uk, climate change uk villages, managed retreat, britain lost to the sea, ghost villages england, uk history documentary, deserted uk, disappearing britain