Talk:Corton, Suffolk

Corton Suburb of Lowestoft, Suffolk
Corton is a suburb of Lowestoft, Suffolk in Waveney District of East Anglia. It is joined to Lowestoft as it is attached to Pleasurewood Hills Theme Park and Home ground of Lowestoft Rugby Union Club. It was a small coastal village but over the years has been suburbanised. It is located around 3 mi north of centre of town. It has boundaries with another suburb called Gunton. The population of Corton in 2008 was estimated to be 1,140. 92.29.125.144 (talk) 22:39, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
 * There are really technical issues with calling Corton a suburb - technically it would be better to suggest something like dormitory village or similar. I think we'd need to check that anyone considers it a suburb in any of the literature or press. There have been arguments put forward that Pakefield is a village, for example. I've seen that fairly convincingly argued, although a consensus was reached on that article that we use suburb a while back. I think we'd be stretching suburb here. Blue Square Thing (talk) 22:58, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Ok look to see what press say. What technical issues are there?. Stretching the suburb is what happens naturally when as a town gets bigger Pleasurewood Hills Theme Park and Home ground of Lowestoft Rugby Union Club are already part of Lowestoft Suburb/Urban Area which is attached to Corton. Dormitory? Corton is not a Bedroom. 92.15.15.98 (talk) 23:09, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
 * These are technical geographical terms with very specific meanings. An A level geography textbook will cover them if you need to see precisely what they mean. In simple terms, there's a gap. An initial search suggests suburb is unlikely btw Blue Square Thing (talk) 23:20, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
 * for example Blue Square Thing (talk) 23:23, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Corton Woods seperate Pleasurewood Hills from Corton. Pleasurewood Hills has got nothing to do with Corton - there are no roads to it, no signs, nothing. And when you travel from Lowestoft to Corton, you have to go through open countryside between them. I'm sure that makes it a village not a suburb. 92.24.180.71 (talk) 10:02, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Coastline same as in 1940s
I have an old Ornance Survey one-inch map of the area, from 1946 as far as I recall. The position of the coastline at Corton is exactly the same as it is now, nearly seventy years later. I wonder if these references to coastal erosion are just people copying each other's opinions. Down the coast in Kessingland, for example, there is about half a mile of dunes between the old coastal defenses and the sea. The Corton coastal defenses were completely rebuilt and modernised recently, and also extra rocks and wave-breaks were put down to encourage silting. There is a good chance that the beach will build up as at Kessingland. 92.24.180.71 (talk) 10:00, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
 * The map is the 1946 edition of the One-Inch Map, sheet 137. It says "Full revision 1914 with later corrections". So the coastline at Corton may have been stable even from 1914 or earlier. 92.3.57.157 (talk) 08:59, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
 * The beach to the south of Corton has obviously built up in recent years as you can see ladders down to the beach now covered in shingle and redundant. That beach appears to be creeping northwards. 92.3.54.54 (talk) 08:57, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Deleted "The cliffs of the beaches are suffering gradual coastal erosion." None of the references given mention coastal erosion, and see above. May I also remind people that the soil level naturally rises over the years due to dust and composting, which is why archaeologists have to dig down, and why old neglected gardens have their paths hidden by a lot of soil. 92.3.54.54 (talk) 09:12, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

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