What is happening to the village of Happisburgh pronounced 'haze-bro' Norfolk in the UK and what happened to another village between Happisburgh and the North Sea?

Answer 1

Happisburgh, County of Norfolk, sits along the North Sea. It has been in the news for two primary reasons. First, as the sea lashed the shores, the sea revealed human footprints in clay rock that were dated at between 850,000 and 950,000 years old. Luckily, the British Museum documented these prints, for "within a fortnight", the sea had nearly erased them all. The second reason that Happisburgh has become newsworthy is a centuries' old problem that is now threatening the current village: pervasive, continual, and ever-encroaching sea erosion! The cliffs there are clay rock underneath with a sandy soil above. Rains soak the sand, which saturates deep into the ground. From below, the sea's waves continually pound against and erode the clay from underneath. The result is a liquefaction-landslide of the cliffs which fall into the sea below. According to one article online, a local farmer "...ploughed a 12-acre field one night in 1845 only to wake the next morning after a storm to find only the sea."

The other village, unnamed in these sources, disappeared from the same erosive effects.