Happisburgh

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The view of the cliffs from the end of Beach Road showing the precarious position of several houses, as the cliffs are being eaten away by coastal erosion.

Happisburgh (pronounced Hays-brugh) is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated off the B1159 coast road from Ingham to Bacton.^[1]

The civil parish has an area of 10.78 km² and in the 2001 census had a population of 1372 in 607 households. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of North Norfolk.^[2]

The tower of the 15th century St.Mary's Church is as important a landmark to mariners as the red-and-white striped lighthouse, half a mile to the south, in warning them of the position of the treacherous sandbanks. In 1940 a German bomber released a trapped bomb from its bays during its return to Germany, and the shrapnel from the bomb can still be seen embedded in the aisle pillars of the church. The church's octagonal font, also of the 15th century, is carved with figures of lions and satyrs or 'wild men of the woods'. ^[3]

Changes in governmental policy have discontinued management of coastal erosion in the area.^{[citation needed]}

1 Notable residents
- 1.1 Ships Wrecked on nearby Haisborough Sand and Hammond Knoll
2 References
3 External links

[edit] Notable residents

Charles William Peach, naturalist and geologist
Richard Porson, classical scholar

[edit] Ships Wrecked on nearby Haisborough Sand and Hammond Knoll

SS English Trader
HMS Invincible (1765)
MV Samnethy
The 'barque' Galatea
SS Georgia (1927)

[edit] References

^ Ordnance Survey (2002). OS Explorer Map 252 - Norfolk Coast East. ISBN 0-319-21888-0.
^ Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Retrieved December 2, 2005.
^ AA Illustrated Guide to Britain, London, 5th edition, 1983, p.285.