Lost Cities and Sunken Lands

Draws on many sources, from ancient legends to parish maps, old chronicles and surveys, gathering together the rare fragments of literary, pictorial and folklore remains detailing information on the remains of lands around the British coast which have been destroyed by the sea. The roll-call of these lost lands and the fate of once thriving coastal towns such as Dunwich and settlements such as Caer Arianrhod and the lost Lowland Hundred of Cantref y Gwaelod, challenges us to reconsider whether the lost land of Lyonesse, which once extended from Land's End to the Scilly Isles, existed solely in Arthurian legend. The underwater forests of Wales, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Kent and Sussex, the lost Saxon cathedral off the anchorage of Selsey Bill - once a great parkland and Goodwin Sands - once good farmland, but now a notorious graveyard for shipping, are all among the many lost lands of Britain described here. Liberally illustrated with diagrams, drawings and photographs.