Yorkshire is getting smaller...

 The Holderness coast in East Yorkshire is one of the fastest eroding coasts in the UK. It is also home to quite a number of coastal caravan parks, many of which seem to be a bit too close to the cliff edge!

Coastal defences are in place in some areas in the form of rock and concrete blocks placed at the base of the cliffs but elsewhere the sea takes a few feet every year and old maps will show numerous villages which have been lost to the sea. 

These pictures show the situation immediately south of Hornsea. A few yards further south the defences end and the cliffs have been taken forming a long bay as can be seen from this aerial image.