WESTWARD HO!FIELDTRIP

SOUTH MOLTON CC DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY

“Nothing in this world is permanent except change”

Heraclitus Greek philosopher (535 - 475 BC)

Source of Pebbles – Hartland Quay

Westward Ho! Beach

Cobalt Apartments

Nassau Court

View From Kipling Tor

Wave Patterns at Westward Ho!

Old Coastguard Lookout

Cornborough Wave Cut Platform

Cornborough Beach

Mermaid’s Pool and Wave Cut Platform

Cliff Instability Above Mermaid’s Pool

Raised Beach Behind Mermaid’s Pool

Raised Beach and Old Cliff Line, Seafield

8m platform at Seafield marks sea level 125,000 years ago in last warm period. The pebble beach of that time is capped by the cold stage slope debris (HEAD).

Old Sewage Pipe

Wave Cut Platform

Active Erosion at Seafield House

Cave in Present Cliffline

Pot Hole on Wave Cut Platform

Pebbles in Raised Beach at Seafield House

Victorian Sea Wall Below Caravan Park

Sea Wall and Rock Armour by Slipway

Sea Wall

Rock Armour (Rip Rap) below Sea Wall

Sea Wall, Rip Rap and Beach Deposits

Waves Breaking on Sea Armour

Westward Ho! Beach and Slipway

Exposed Beach - 1984

Pebble Ridge From Kipling Tor

Pebble Ridge & Sandymere

The Pebble Ridge & Northam Burrows

Taw-Torridge Estuary & Northam Burrows

The Pebble Ridge

Material at Westward Ho!Includes rounded blocks

from the Hartland directionand local slate type rocks.

All the pebbles at Westward Ho! showpercussion scars where rocks have

hit them. This is Abrasion and Corrasion.

The Pebble Ridge & Northam Burrows

Pebble RidgeRetreat1861 to1947

(Average = 1.5 m/yr)

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The Pebble Ridge (showing old groyne)

Gabions abandonedGabions abandonedPebble Ridge Gabions Isolated by Ridge Retreat (1985)

replenish2replenish2Beach Replenishment

1962 Torn gap infilled 1962 Torn gap infilled Repairing a Breach - 1962

Waves Breaching Pebble Ridge & Flooding Northam Burrows