Easton Bavents
Easton Bavents | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | SOUTHWOLD | |
Postcode district | IP18 | |
Dialling code | 01502 | |
Police | Suffolk | |
Fire | Suffolk | |
Ambulance | East of England | |
UK Parliament | ||
Easton Bavents is a
History
The place-name Easton Bavents is first attested in the
Medieval Easton Bavents was a parish of some importance, granted a weekly market in the 14th century, with a three-day fair on the feast day of
The Battle of Solebay in the Third Anglo-Dutch War took place in 1672 off the coast of Easton Bavents, which survived as a fishing village until the 19th century. The continuing erosion of the cliffs makes the area a popular, albeit hazardous area for fossil hunters, who approach it along the beach from Southwold.
The pace of erosion has averaged some 3 metres a year since 1945, although storms and high tides increase the rate. The last three terraced houses on the cliff edge were demolished in January 2020.[4] Author Juliet Blaxland wrote a memoir about living in one of them. Called The Easternmost House, it was published in 2019 and nominated for the Wainwright Prize.[5][6][7] On 1 April 1987 the parish was abolished and merged with Reydon.[8]
Residual population
Year | Population |
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1801 | 17[9] |
1901 | 16[9] |
1971 | 19[citation needed] |
2020 | 14[citation needed] |
References
- ^ a b Suffolk Churches. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
- A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p. 157.
- ^ Barnett S (2020) Demolition of landmark clifftop home gets underway after ‘critical’ coastal erosion, East Anglian Daily Times, 2020-01-20. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
- ^ The Easternmost House, Good Reads. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
- ^ The Easternmost House, Wainwright Prize. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
- ^ Heffer S (2019) The Easternmost House by Juliet Blaxland, review: a charming fight for rural existence, The Daily Telegraph, 2019-06-12. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
- ^ "The Waveney (Parishes) Order 1987" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 August 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
- ^ a b "Easton Bavants Civil Parish | Population Statistics | Total Population". A Vision of Britain Through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
External links
- Easton Broad and Wood – Stacey Peak Media