Showing posts with label torcross. Show all posts
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6 Feb 2026

The sea will win

In my lifetime, there has always been a road across Torcross Line in Devon, UK. 

This is a long strip of land dividing the saltwater sea from a freshwater lake known as Slapton Ley. Apparently the road was only built 28 years before I was born.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slapton_Ley

It was where Americans practised for the D-day landings in WW2.

In recent storms and high tides, it looks like this lifeline road has been damaged beyond repair leaving some villages very isolated. In years gone past, most places were self-sufficient. Nowadays, people have to travel for shopping, work or school, so things are harder.

It looks like the sea is winning. Long after I have gone, I expect this stretch will be breached and Slapton Ley will be saltwater.

We forget that things that seem forever to us are not.

See https://www.independent.co.uk/ .

3 Mar 2018

Slapton Line - NOT amateur radio

This is also known as Torcross Line, Devon. In WW2 is was used as a place where D-day landings were rehearsed.

Sadly, a big stretch of the road along it was washed away and it is quite possible it will never be repaired. In the end the sea will inundate the freshwater lake known as Slapton Ley. This could be soon or in 50 years' time.

The question is how long do you keep re-building the road (A379) that runs along it? This stretch is one of the best views in the UK.