Posted by Mike F on September 05, 2002 at 17:09:38 from 203.26.98.6 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: Sinbad's Creek (was posted by Jonathan Labaree on September 05, 2002 at 13:31:38:
Jonathan, someone mentioned in that earlier thread that there had been bad storms in the 50s (?) as a result of which a lot of the dykes had been breached and land flooded. Not all the breaches had been repaired, so that now Secret (Hamford) Water has more water and less land than it used to have.
Also the east coast is slowly sinking, and I imagine that in the seventy or so years since the book was written, this fact alone would have produced a significant increase in the water / land ratio.
In my spare time (har,) I have been compiling a map of Secret Water based on latterday maps of the area, and there certainly appear to be many more intrusions of water into the land, and many more small mud islands, than formerly. (I hope that Dave Thewlis will again be good enough to upload the map, when finished, to the AR website for general access.)