Happisburgh

For centuries Happisburgh has attracted people for a variety of reasons. The Vikings came to pillage and destroy, and later to form a settlement here. Eric the Dane was Overlord at the time of the Norman Conquest. He was soon dispossessed and replaced by followers of King William.

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. 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 part of the town near the coast regularly experiences severe erosion and houses that used to be over 20 feet from the sea now sit at the edge of a cliff and will later fall into the sea. Sea defences were built in 1959 to stop the tide from eating away at the coast, but by the 1990s, all that remained was a small strip of piled-up rocks. Changes in government policy, however, have discontinued management of coastal erosion in North Norfolk.

13 °C

Clouds, broken clouds

Wind	6.69 m/s
Cloudiness	75 %
Temperature (min/max)	13/15 °C
Pressure	1008 hpa
Humidity	87 %

Last update: 30 May 2024 @ 16:46

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