There has been a major landslip between Lyme Regis and CHarmouth on the Dorset “Jurassic Coast”. It’s likely that it will attract fossil hunters and palaeontologists seeking new finds:
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Does anyone know of an earthquake in west dorset about 1600AD? I was told that it had flattened a farmhouse at Stoke Abbot about 400 years ago.
I’m unaware of the Stoke Abbott earthquake, but there was a significant landslip there on Friday afternoon during torrential rain.
Might a similar thing have happened 400 years ago – and which was either dramatically more serious or dramatically exaggerated??
I’m a keen, if amateur, local historian and I’d have expected something as major as a farmhouse-flattening earthquake to have cropped up somewhere in the annals, but no. That said, a “mere” landslip causing such damage ought to have been recorded by somebody too!