Remains of Godwin Artillery Battery, Kilnsea, Yorkshire, UK
Remains of the Godwin Artillery Battery on the beach at Kilnsea at the head of Spurn Point, Yorkshire, UK. The Godwin Artillery Battery was a defensive fort constructed in the First World War, with further additions made during the Second World War. It comprised gun emplacements, search light, barracks, an officer's mess, and a hospital. By 1995, most of the fort had collapsed due to coastal erosion. Holderness, the section of coastline Godwin is on, is the fastest eroding coastline in Europe. The soft clay cliffs are prone to erosion and have been eroding for millennia. In recent years, however, storms, increased heavy rainfall and sea level rises induced by climate change have accelerated this erosion.