Another Sidmouth cliff fall

Regular readers of the blog will know that I visit Sidmouth each year to visit the cliffs that I featured as a case study in the OCR A and B GCSE Geography books that I wrote (which are now in a 2nd edition, which is excellent).

There are regular clif falls and the cliff has retreated substantially over the last few years and the East Beach is closed off to people because of the danger.

I was there last week during the Sidmouth Folk Festival (which was back in person once again) and took these images. There is a smartphone mount where you can place your phone and take an image to upload to the website. 

I did this to contribute to the citizen science efforts to monitor the retreat of the cliffs.

It appears there was yet another cliff fall earlier, which has closed off the beach again.

⚠️ If you're soaking up the sun in #Sidmouth this weekend, please remember that access to East Beach is closed for public safety due to frequent cliff falls.

Please take note of signs and follow advice from the lifeguards. pic.twitter.com/0iIhSnfcaD

— Devon County Council (@DevonCC) August 5, 2022

A week after my visit there was another large cliff fall.

Thanks to Paul Berry for the link to the Devon Live article.

Image source: https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/another-huge-cliff-fall-sidmouth-7435061

Cliff images at the top of the post: Alan Parkinson, and shared under CC license