Happisburgh (pronounced [ˈhaisbro]) is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. A civil parish in the United Kingdom is a unit of local government. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A county is a Land area of Regional Government within a larger State. Norfolk (ˈnɔrfək is a low-lying county in East Anglia, England, United Kingdom. It is situated off the B1159 coast road from Ingham to Bacton. The B1159 runs for about 32 miles between Cromer and Caister-on-Sea parallel to but some distance from a stretch of the north east coast of Norfolk Ingham is a small Village and Civil parish in the English County of Norfolk. Bacton is a Village and Civil parish in the English County of Norfolk. [1]
The civil parish has an area of 10.78 km² and in the 2001 census had a population of 1,372 in 607 households. To help compare sizes of different geographic regions we list here Areas between 10 km² (1000 Hectares and 100 km² (10000 hectares A nationwide Census, commonly known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday 29 April 2001 For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of North Norfolk. Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially ' shire districts', are a type of local government district in England. North Norfolk is a local government district in Norfolk, United Kingdom. [2]
The tower of the 15th-century St Mary's Church is as important a landmark to mariners as the red-and-white striped lighthouse, half a mile to the south, in warning them of the position of the treacherous sandbanks. Happisburgh Lighthouse in Happisburgh on the North Norfolk coast is the only independently operated Lighthouse in Great Britain A shoal or sandbar (also called sandbank) is a somewhat Linear Landform within or extending into a body of Water, In 1940 a German bomber released a trapped bomb from its bays during its return to Germany, and the shrapnel from the bomb can still be seen embedded in the aisle pillars of the church. The church's octagonal font, also of the 15th century, is carved with figures of lions and satyrs. The lion ( Panthera leo) is a member of the family Felidae and one of four Big cats in the Genus Panthera. In Greek mythology, satyrs (Σάτυροι Satyroi) are a troop of male companions of Pan and Dionysus – " Satyresses quot [3]
The part of the town near the coast regularly experiences severe erosion, and houses that used to be over 20 feet from the ocean now sit at the edge of a cliff, and will later fall into the ocean. Sea defences were built in 1959 to stop the tide from eating away at the coast, but by the 1990's, all that remained was a small strip of piled-up rocks. In some jurisdictions the terms sea defense and coastal protection are used to mean respectively defence against flooding and erosion Changes in government policy, however, have discontinued management of coastal erosion in North Norfolk. Coastal erosion is the wearing away of land or the removal of Beach or Dune Sediments by Wave action tidal currents, wave currents [4]
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Notable residents
- Charles William Peach, naturalist and geologist
- Richard Porson, classical scholar
Ships wrecked on nearby Haisborough Sands and Hammond Knoll
- SS English Trader (1941)
- HMS Invincible (1801)
- MV Samnethy
- The barque Galatea
- SS Georgia (1927)
References
- ^ Ordnance Survey (2002). Charles William Peach ( September 30, 1800 - February 28, 1886) was a British naturalist and Geologist. Richard Porson ( 25 December 1759 &ndash 25 September 1808) was an English classical scholar. Service The first three years of the vessel's life were uneventful Shipwreck On 16 March 1801, she was lost in a Shipwreck off the Norfolk Coast. Final Voyage In September 1927 the Tanker SS Georgia was at the port of Abadan in the Khuzestan province in south western Iran (Persia OS Explorer Map 252 - Norfolk Coast East. ISBN 0-319-21888-0.
- ^ Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Retrieved December 2, 2005. Events 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
- ^ AA Illustrated Guide to Britain, London, 5th edition, 1983, p. 285.
- ^ http://www.northnorfolk.org/coastal/documents/coastal_planning_leaflet.pdf
External links
- Map sources for Happisburgh.
- Information from Genuki Norfolk on Happisburgh.
- CCAG Happisburgh Coastal Concern Action Group.
- Happisburgh Literary History
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