Beautiful Runswick Bay

And what a strange history this area has, being a tale of the loss of TWO villages during the hours of Darkness, first Runswick itself, it happened  in this way.
"One dark night in 1664, while local people were attending a wake, the whole village of Runswick slipped into the sea…

Thankfully, all the villagers escaped but by morning there was only one house left standing… the house of the dead man!

Like other Yorkshire coastal villages, most of the villagers were fishermen, around which a great deal of superstition revolved. Any mention of pigs, women or eggs on the way to their boats would lead to the cancellation of the day’s activities.

There are also stories of hobs and goblins that were said to frequent the moors and coast - some troublemakers, others dispensing help and good luck.

Runswick Bay is still one of the most picturesque fishing villages in England and provides the perfect hub from which to explore the Yorkshire’s heritage coast."
Well at least it was rebuilt as you can see, but the fate of the twin village of Kettleness (which was on the sloping face of the far headland to the left of the picture was almost identical, but it could never be rebuilt as the ground is still slipping in the sea to this day.
It happened like this:
"One Dark December night  in 1829, during  storm, the villagers were woken by strange movements and noises in the ground, many went down to the shore and took ship in the Alum boats, the rest followed the track to the cliff top.
All stood and watched as the village slid smoothly all of a piece down into the sea.
None were lost
The very ground was lost and never still so the village was abandoned for ever.
All that remains is the railway  station and a few houses on the clifftop "

Here is an earlier Blip I did from the bottom of the hill near the car park,  of the village.
Runswick from the beach