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Dunwich: Britain’s Medieval Atlantis….

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Beach at Dunwich

This article by the Daily Mail is very interesting. I am always spooked by the thought of sunken towns and villages, ghostly church bells tolling mournfully beneath the waves and so on, but this is much more scientific than my over-active imagination.

Well worth reading.

 

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