name me towns sunken under the wave in all regions plz

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the aberdovey story = the legend of the "lowland hundred" or Cantre'r Gwaelod

Rungholt: The great storms of 1362 and 1634 destroyed much of the region and altered its coastline and islands forever. Hamburger Hallig (see photo) was once part of the much larger island Altnordstrand. Some 6000 people lost their lives and 50,000 cattle were drowned in the storm of 1634. Whole townships were washed away including that of Rungholt (see map) which became the subject of many future legends and ballads in the region. It is said that the bells of the old Rungholt church can still be heard at certain times below the waters of the tidal flats:

I have sailed over Rungholt town today,
five hundred years ago it was washed away.
The waves still pound there, wild and harsh,
just as before, when they destroyed the marsh.
The steamship's engines shake and creak,
From the sea comes a weird and mocking shriek...

Ys: below, King Gradlon escapes the destruction of the Britannic city of Ys
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/rbg/dastest/index_fichiers/image020.jpg

Paris got its name bcz it wz Par-Ys, ie "like" Ys

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 27 June 2001 03:27 (twenty-four years ago)

four years pass...

cf "the bells of aberdovey" obv but lots of uk* coastal towns gone sunk - bring me their tales

*doubtless other nations too (maybe not switzerland)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 18 July 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Every couple of years Isabel and I go to the island of Telendos in Greece, it's a very very small island and used to be joined to its neighbour Kalymnos until an earthquake in 554AD sunk the valley in between incl. an entire village which "can still be seen on calm days" (not yet by us tho).

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 18 July 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Up the Norfolk coast from Cromer: Shipden. Quite a bit further down the Nor/Suffolk coast the other way: Dunwich (as was).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 July 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

the city of zeugma furnishes us with an answer, our dreams with richness [/second most hopeless obscure mark s "gag" in last three days]

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 18 July 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Metamaucum - the original settlement on the Lido of Venice (where my father is from), which acted as the port town of Padua in Roman times, and was the seat of Venetian government between the 5th and 8th centuries. No-one knows exactly where it is, other than somewhere in the Venetian lagoon (or possibly even on the Adriatic side?). The last records that deal with it are in the 12th century, and detail the movement of goods and documents to other convents, churches and monasteries.

It's a mystery!

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 18 July 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

http://www.poleshiftprepare.com/sphinxx.jpeg

in egypt some cities are sunken in the desert! they count too!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 18 July 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Hallsands, on the South Devon coast, grew weary of seeing the bloody birth of the twentieth century and slipped swiftly into the sea in 1917.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 18 July 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

Walking around the ruins of Hallsands is recommended, by me. But not at high tide, obv.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 18 July 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.clui.org/clui_4_1/ondisplay/submerged/images/immersed-home.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 18 July 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

Figured that picture was too big. Anyway, every town in this exhibit.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 18 July 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

East Yorkshire: Ravenspurn, Ravenserod, Penisthorpe

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 18 July 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

pffffffffffft, penisthorpe?????

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 18 July 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

The construction of Shasta Dam in Redding submerged Kennett, California.

In the summer when Lake Shasta is very low, there's a factory smokestack that starts to peek up out of the water.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 18 July 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 18 July 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Tim, whereabouts is Hallsands? How long to get there from Exeter?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 18 July 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Penisthorpe was more village than town, but it genuinely did exist. The nearest modern hamlet is Sunk Island.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 18 July 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

They built another Hallsands up the hill, having learned their lesson I suppose. Beesands, the next village, I remember as being very dull indeed, what with not being ruined and that.

If you're in that part of the world it's important to visit Noss Mayo, the home of Mayonnaise.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

On the coast of Kent; Old Winchelsea was submerged as the sea reclaimed part of Romney Marsh.

unlike the "port" of New Winchelsea which is now high and dry a couple of miles inland.

― Bidfurd, Monday, 18 July 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

the quabbin reservoir in western massachusetts
actually, while doing a google search for that link, i came across this gem of a story. I always suspected the area was inhabited by freaks, but clearly I underestimated the extent...

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 18 July 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

(let us not hide my lovely post of four so-called years ago)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 18 July 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

The Aberdovey legend is referenced in the last book of The Dark Is Rising.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 18 July 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Oh yes! Old Winchelsea!

Also several villages near to Hull, Ravens-something. Oh my terrible memory. There's a whole chapter in my "Lost Villages of Britain" book on DMVs (deserted medieval villages) about towns that the Sea reclaimed.

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)

Also several villages near to Hull, Ravens-something

See my post above :-)

Ravenspurn, Ravenserod, Penisthorpe, and some others with less memorable names.

(that book is in my local library. It's very interesting - haven't we talked about it before?)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 07:00 (twenty years ago)

Ah, yes. Sorry, I am only half awake.

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

lake red rock in southern iowa, created by the red rock dam, halfway between knoxville and pella, named for the town of red rock, submerged in the 30s. decades of bad farming practices have silted in the lake dramatically, meaning red rock (the town) is probably under several yards of prime topsoil as well as it's namesake lake. the dam was for flood control but the silt has raised the level so much it's nearing uselessness; ironically some ppl think the dam should just be opened, leaving a nice big swamp that would control the floods just as well...

― demonlolver (gcannon), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 07:25 (twenty years ago)

Hallsands is down by Start Point, in the South Hams, Devon's posh bit. I suppose it'd take you about 45 minutes or so by car from Exeter. I haven't been there since 1983 or so, but I don't suppose much has changed.
They built another Hallsands up the hill, having learned their lesson I suppose. Beesands, the next village, I remember as being very dull indeed, what with not being ruined and that.

If you're in that part of the world it's important to visit Noss Mayo, the home of Mayonnaise.

Sometimes Mr Hopkins scares me.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

that "immersed remains" picture that elvis t linked to is so sad to look at! Poor little house!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 07:34 (twenty years ago)

Nether Hambleton is sunk below Rutland Water, the largest man-made lake in Western Europe.

― Scream! Scrovula, Scream! (noodle vague), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 07:52 (twenty years ago)

yes reservoir villages too plz!! esp. if you have photos of the spire mournfully pokin out in dry summers

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

Johnstown, Pennsylvania

― Nostalgic for the Pre-Conservative Hendrie (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Three Gorges Dam moved like one or two million people.

― teh Nü and Impröved john n chicago (frankE), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

fourteen years pass...

tell me more, i am in a sunken watery cities mood, also all the nice pictures in this thread vanished

― mark s, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 18:03 (six years ago)

already mentioned upthread but pictures

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R8F2gb6Ab3M/VkYWa8IYzjI/AAAAAAAAHuo/-JAqy8xWhs8/s1600/EastYorksLostTowns.jpg

https://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/02/ravenserodd-lost-towns-yorkshire-coast.html

― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:40 (six years ago)

At the end of dry German summers, the remains of the villages of Asel, Berich and Bringhausen and the Asel Bridge in Northern Hesse resurface when water levels drop below 235.1 m.

The villages were submerged in 1914 when the lake was filled to form the Edersee Dam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22HQYJz5XYY

― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 20:32 (six years ago)

A sunken church steeple in Reschensee (Resia Lake) is all that remains of the old village of Graun in South Tyrol after it and parts of Reschen were submerged in 1950 as part of the construction of a of 22-meter deep dam project.

The project had been started in 1939 by the Montecatini conglomerate, and locals wrongly believed that the end of the War would halt plans to build the dam.

https://www.urlaub-vinschgau.net/CustomerData/143/Files/Images/kultur-natur/reschensee-kirchturm-sommer.jpg

― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 20:50 (six years ago)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/29/climate/coastal-cities-underwater.html

― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 20:54 (six years ago)

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