Holderness Coast

• Where?

  East coast of England
• Length

  61km
• Rate of recession

  2m per year
• Lithology

  Boulder clay and Chalk
• Has strong prevailing winds that create destructive waves
• Hornsea

  • Hard Engineering strategies are used because it has a high density of urban development and is tourism dependent
  • Hard engineering: Groynes, Rock Armour and Sea Walls
  • Groynes: Ensures wide, sandy beaches = tourist attraction but starves beaches further down the coast from sediment
• Withernsea

  • Hard engineering strategies: Groynes, Rock Armour, Recurved Sea Walls
  • Recurved Sea Walls = £6.3 million