1839: the Great Landslide creates the Undercliff >>> >>> talk on Friday 8th March

It happened 180 years ago: 
The Undercliff - Wikipedia
Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliffs - Explore Devon

And there's an opportunity next week to hear about what happened when there was a massive land slip between Seaton and Lyme Regis:

SUPPER & CONVERSATION: THE GREAT LANDSLIDE OF 1839

Speaker: Richard Edmonds

The tumultuous accounts of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 1839 record one of the most famous and celebrated landslide events in the World which took place in the undercliff between Axmouth and Lyme Regis. Eyewitnesses describe a huge convulsion in the earth where 16 acres of land, 8 million tonnes of rock, slipped seaward creating Goat Island isolated from the fields behind by a yawning chasm. The sea bed was heaved up to form a reef offshore, and the Victorians, being fans of the forces of nature, flocked to this coast to marvel at the spectacle.

Since then a number of scientists have developed theories to explain this complex landslide but there is no agreement and no detailed map to base any interpretations on, however, with the entire coast of England now being surveyed under a strategic monitoring programme the answers may be in sight.

Richard Edmond’s love of the Jurassic Coast started with the chance finding of a perfect pyrite (fools gold) ammonite when he moved to Lyme Regis in 1972. The spark of love for geology was lit for him. Having spent over 2,500 hours working on exploring and analysing the evidence of The Great Landslide there is no-one more informed than Richard to explain the geology of our local area and the dramatic change made to our coastline by the Great Landslide of 1839.

Supper and Conversation with Richard Edmonds takes place at Trill on Friday 8th March. Book a ticket with dinner, or for the talk only here...

Trill Farm - S&C: THE GREAT LANDSLIDE
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