Meridian Line: England

We expect that twenty or more electronic books will be needed to cover the length of the Meridian Line in England. The Line starts in farming country in Holderness, East Yorkshire, on the coast at Tunstall. This most northern track of The Line eventually passes the channel coast at Peacehaven, Sussex, where the southern end of The Line heads for France. Between those extremes there are several different types of countryside: isolated small villages in Lincolnshire; Fenland near the Wash; pretty villages in Cambridgeshire; historic towns like Boston and the higher rolling downland south of London. We report on the corridor about five miles either side of The Line, more than 205 miles (330 km) through England, where there are many tales to tell.

Just to the west of Cambridge is Swavesey village, at the mid-point of The Line through England. A time capsule was buried there in May 2000. See the story: Swavesey

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Here is the point where we look south down The Line as it crosses the coast of Holderness, East Yorkshire, at Tunstall. The line marker is just on the edge of the cliff. Since this is one of the coasts in the UK which suffer the most erosion we can expect that the marker pillar will disappear under the sea within a few years, just as an old church at Tunstall did some centuries ago.

The southern end of The Line through England stops at Peacehaven. A new town created just after the 1914/18 war, justifying its carefully chosen name. At one time it was called Anzac-on-Sea because of the number of antipodean troops living in the area. The town is perched on top of the 90 foot cliffs that provide a blazing panorama of the English channel in good weather.

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