Talk:Happisburgh

Source
Whilst Happisburgh is a well-known and popular retreat I had to dig around for a source! Sussexman 09:08, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Spelling
Note there are three spellings: 'Happisburgh' is the village, 'Haisborough Sands' is the sandbank 8 miles offshore which is marked by the south, mid and north Haisbro' buoys. Jaydublu (talk) 08:48, 28 April 2008 (UTC)


 * It would be helpful to have information on the origin of the spelling. Is the letter p used as a substitute for the Old English letter wyn (which looked like a p but was pronounced like a w)?  This would be a question of paleography and could be quickly ascertained by a review of old documents (if any) mentioning Happisburgh.  The letter wyn continued to be used into the Middle English period.  -- Bob Bob99 (talk) 14:13, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Costal erosion
Coastal erosion is a very big issue at Happisburgh and surroundings, but it is very hard to find suitably accreditable content to meet Wikipedia's editorial guidelines. Jaydublu (talk) 08:48, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

I have removed "but by the 1990s, all that remained was a small strip of piled-up rocks." This is incorrect, the defenses have not been maintained for a number of years and are gradually breaking up. in the area where the erosioin is most severe the wooden defenses have completely disappeared - resulting in the formation of a bay. Rocks have been placed in this area in order to slow the erosion. This is form personal experience, but photographic evidence can be seen on the CCAG website. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Purplejumper (talk • contribs) 01:02, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

B1159 redesignation
The B1159 has been redesignated and no longer runs through the village - any idea where a source that can back this up is? Purplejumper (talk) 23:54, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Lifeboat Shed Location
I'm not convinced that the original lifeboat location was at 'Old Cart Gap'. Cart Gap is where the shed is now. Anyone got any further sources on the history of the lifeboat? Purplejumper (talk) 11:59, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Which pronunciation is correct?
The first sentence gives three different pronunciations:"Happisburgh is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk." If the audio file is correct, then the word has three syllables, and both transcriptions are incorrect. If the audio file and the respelling transcription are correct, then the /s/ in is incorrect and should be /z/ instead.

I'm an ignorant American who has no idea why the people who invented our glorious language no longer know how to speak it, so someone in the know should at least fix the three pronunciations given in this article so they agree – unless the real purpose in giving pronunciations for English place names is to insure the rest of the world never gets them right.--Jim10701 (talk) 17:36, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

External links modified
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Minor adjustment
The article mentions, "in 2010 when flint tools over 800,000 years old were unearthed," but reference 5 says, "Here we present new evidence from Happisburgh (Norfolk, UK) demonstrating that Early Pleistocene hominins were present in northern Europe >0.78 Myr ago." So I will change the article from "over 800,000" to "almost 800,000." Dgndenver (talk) 01:11, 5 April 2024 (UTC)