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More like 700 years from the sounds of things. > This city was once the same physical size as the City of London with a population, in its late-thirteenth-cent
by truculent 4y ago
More like 700 years from the sounds of things.
> This city was once the same physical size as the City of London with a population, in its late-thirteenth-century heyday, of around ten thousand, before it was savagely diminished by two calamitous sea-storms in 1288 and 1328 initiating a process of coastal erosion that would plunge much of the city off the cliff in the succeeding, sorrowful centuries.
- knodi123 4y agomy uncle used to say, invest in land, it's the only thing they're not making any more of. he would probably call volcanic islands the exception that proves the rule.
- rikroots 4y agoThe late 13th century was a time for some epic storms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_England_flood_of_February_1287 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_England_flood_of_Februar...
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- wahern 4y agoThe map in that article was very confusing as compared to Google Maps until I realized that the "dashed lines" representing the modern coastline are the dashed black lines, not the dashed red lines. Moreover, the land area grew.
- jamiek88 4y agoThanks! It got me too, but I am English so I knew Sandwich and Canterbury still exist and have been there so was double confused!
- Maursault 4y agoHoly crap!