Geography Walton-On-The Naze Case Study

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Location

Walton-on-the-Naze is one of Britain’s traditional seaside towns.  It is located in the South-East of England and it is on the North point of the Tendring Peninsular on the Essex Coast. It is bordering the North sea. To be located it is situated North of London and just to the south of Harwich. Walton-on-the-Naze has a very popular seaside with tourists and a great outdoor resort.

The Problem

This is an area on the coast that is under constant erosion from the sea.

The sea reaches the beach by long shore drift and erodes the cliff by weathering, hydraulic action and abrasion. The cliff is being eroded back and this means land and buildings will be lost. The land is of high economic value a it has houses and shops on it. Parts of the cliff have now been protected and others have been left by managed retreat areas that are of little economic value like farmland, houses and public buildings and these effects the economy of the area as it has lost its way of making income and cannot support itself. Because this area relies on tourism the beach is important and so needs to be kept.

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For many centuries now the East Anglian coastline has been slowly eroding for natural reasons. Apart from the effects of the onslaughts of major storms and surges, this has been a steady but nevertheless relentless regression. In the short term the high beach sand loss, resulting from the strong onshore north winds of the winter months were normally balanced by reinstatement during the summer months when the prevailing offshore south to south west winds prevail.

The cliffs at Walton have layers of different materials. The bottom one is London clay and is ...

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