[blam]

Thanks to Renfield for the article.

GGG Ping.

[agere_contra]

The lost city is called Dunwich? DUNWICH?

It’s missing for a reason Professor!

[Lancey Howard]

Maybe it’s the lost continent of Mu.

[SunkenCiv]

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[pallis]

We should have stopped global warming before Dunwich was lost.

[wildbill]

It’s a little known fact, but the last Mayor of Dunwich watched as the town subsided under the sea and renamed it “Dunwith”

[A. Morgan]

http://www.soton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2008/jan/08_06.shtml

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Dunwich, fourteen miles south of Lowestoft, was once a thriving port, and in the 14th century similar in size to London. However, storms, erosion and floods over the past six centuries have almost wiped out this once prosperous city, and the Dunwich of today is a quiet coastal village.

The project will use the latest underwater acoustic imaging technology to assess the existence of any remains from the city that lies between 10ft (3m) and 50ft (15m) down.

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Diving evidence suggests the site contains debris from at least two churches and a priory, but underwater visibility at the location is very poor, and no one has any idea what remains (if any) exist from the medieval settlement that was lost in the 13th and 14th centuries.

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The city-scale survey of the sea floor will provide information on the location and state of any structures of archaeological interest in relation to historical records. The findings will be presented as a new public display for the Dunwich Museum, documenting the technology used and what the project has revealed of the lost city.

[JerseyHighlander]

Dunwich has a storied history in the British House of Commons. It was a truly gerrymandered seat for several hundred years after the city could no longer be called more than a village. I haven't read up on this in a long time, until the rising power of Industrialists forced a House of Lords reform through in 1832 to eliminate the rotten boroughs. Effectively, the House of Lords and other Agriculturist old line powers used it to maintain influence in the House of Commons for a few centuries. Stripped The term "rotten borough": referred to a parliamentary borough or constituency in Great Britain and Ireland which, due to size and population, was "controlled" and used by a patron to exercise undue and unrepresentative influence within parliament. Rotten boroughs existed for centuries, although the term rotten borough only came into usage in the 18th century. Typically rotten boroughs were boroughs which once had been flourishing cities with remarkable population, but which had deteriorated, declined and become deserted during the centuries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunwich_%28UK_Parliament_constituency%29 (Pops)

From http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/4/7/4/14742/14742.htm (Pops): 

One of the greatest prizes of the sea is the ancient city of Dunwich, which dates back to the Roman era. The Domesday Survey shows that it was then a considerable town having 236 burgesses. It was girt with strong walls; it possessed an episcopal palace, the seat of the East Anglian bishopric; it had (so Stow asserts) fifty-two churches, a monastery, brazen gates, a town hall, hospitals, and the dignity of possessing a mint. Stow tells of its departed glories, its royal and episcopal palaces, the sumptuous mansion of the mayor, its numerous churches and its windmills, its harbour crowded with shipping, which sent forth forty vessels for the king's service in the thirteenth century. Though Dunwich was an important place, Stow's description of it is rather exaggerated. It could never have had more than ten churches and monasteries. Its "brazen gates" are mythical, though it had its Lepers' Gate, South Gate, and others. It was once a thriving city of wealthy merchants and industrious fishermen. King John granted to it a charter. It suffered from the attacks of armed men as well as from the ravages of the sea. Earl Bigot and the revolting barons besieged it in the reign of Edward I. Its decay was gradual. In 1342, in the parish of St. Nicholas, out of three hundred houses only eighteen remained. Only seven out of a hundred houses were standing in the parish of St. Martin. St. Peter's parish was devastated and depopulated. It had a small round church, like that at Cambridge, called the Temple, once the property of the Knights Templars, richly endowed with costly gifts. This was a place of sanctuary, as were the other churches in the city. With the destruction of the houses came also the decay of the port which no ships could enter. Its rival, Southwold, attracted the vessels of strangers. The markets and fairs were deserted. Silence and ruin reigned over the doomed town, and the ruined church of All Saints is all that remains of its former glories, save what the storms sometimes toss along the beach for the study and edification of antiquaries.

I'm amazed I remembered all this from a Anglosphere history course I took 9 years ago.

[lilylangtree]

I can see the familiar phrase “Now ya’ve dun’itch!”

[fso301]

Mr. Dunwich, click the image below to meet your twin, Gilgal Rephaim

[WoofDog123]

I’d read about this place when I was debating on where to go in East Anglia years ago. Apparently a couple of parts of the old town were still visible at low tide, or very lightly submerged?