Numerous instances can be adduced where the current has taken away twenty-one yards of land from the interior in three tides; and it was computed when the present Inn was built in Lower Sherringham, near Cromer, in 1805, that it would require seventy years for the sea to reach the spot, the mean loss of land being calculated, from previous observations, to be somewhat less than one yard annually; the distance between the house and the sea was fifty yards, but no allowance was made for the slope of the ground being from the sea, in consequence of which the waste was naturally accelerated every year as the cliff grew lower, there being at each succeeding period less matter to remove when portions of equal area fell down. Between the years 1824 and 1829, no less than seventeen yards were swept away, and the distance between the house and the edge of the cliff at this time is only from eight to ten yards. The whole site of ancient Cromer {33a} now forms part of the German Ocean, the inhabitants having gradually retreated inland to the present situation, from whence the sea still threatens to dislodge them. The locality of this portion of the coast, the scarcity of sea beach material in the offing, the bed of the ocean of a rocky character, and the beach presenting nearly a level approaching a dead flat render it peculiarly liable to its invasion. At Trimingham {33b} upwards of fifty acres of land have been removed during the last sixty years, and on one occasion four acres and a half were taken away in one tide. The property belonging to Mr. Wheatley, at Mundesley, {34a} has become considerably reduced in extent and value, and has only been preserved to the present time by substantial walls erected next the sea, and numerous piles of wood driven into the sand beyond them: but what renders it most disheartening is, the sea has excavated the cliff at their extremity; and the probability is, should a heavy lasting gale of wind ensue from the north-west upon a spring tide, they, with perhaps the greater portion of the property, will be swept away by the water intruding behind and between them. Land attached to the estate of S. Bignold, Esq., adjoining Walcot {34b} Gap, previous to 1839, was rapidly taken away. At Hasborough, {34c} the sea has encroached upwards of one hundred and seventy yards during the last sixty years, and it is calculated the church will be engulphed in the Ocean before the middle of the ensuing century.