Dunwich, once a prosperous seaport and centre of the wool trade in the county of
Suffolk in
England during the early middle ages, was lost to the sea over a period of two to three hundred years through a form of
coastal erosion known as
long-shore drift. Little remains now but a village, the remains of an abbey and a building constructed as a hospice for
lepers.
See also: Lost cities.
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