Dunwich
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Dunwich is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. It is in the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape around 92 miles north-east of London, 9 miles south of Southwold and 7 miles n
Dunwich, view down St. James Street; to the right is the local museum
Former leper hospital, showing Romanesque window detail
Beach at Dunwich
Remains of Greyfriars Priory
Saint Marcellus's flood
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Saint Marcellus's flood or Grote Mandrenke was an intense extratropical cyclone, coinciding with a new moon, which swept across the British Isles, the Netherlands, northern Germany, and Denmark around
Dunwich
…and St. Lucia's flood in December. There was a fierce storm on 14 January 1328. Another large storm in 1347 swept some 400 houses into the sea. The Grote Mandrenke around 16 January 1362 finally destroyed much of the remainder of the town. Most of the buildings present in the 13th century have disappeared, including…
North Frisia's coastline in 1651 (left) and 1240 (right)
Windstorm Thomas