Why are we so fascinated by the thought of lands and cities lost beneath the sea? Such tales are both compelling and a little frightening, but have always been around. No doubt they always will be.
I’ve always been particularly intrigued by stories of the land of Lyonesse, but this article is about Dunwich, which definitely did exist.
To read about Lyonesse, go to this website and this one.
[…] Wingfield we travelled to the ‘vanished town’ of Dunwich on the coast, a haunting place that has been mostly reclaimed by the sea. Once, however, it was the […]
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[…] other hand there are places that have disappeared that are known to have once existed. For example Dunwich off the Suffolk coast, and Ravenspur and its town at the mouth of the Humber, where Henry […]
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[…] lands, but we certainly have a good few examples. No wonder we also have great legends such as the lost city of Dunwich and the lost land of […]
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[…] is represented by a naked wild man dragged from the sea in 12th century, and the drowned port of Dunwich in the 13th century. 16th-century goings-on happened around the remains of a Tudor beacon of 1550, […]
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