Ravenser Odd, an island somewhere near Spurn, slipped under the waves centuries ago, as have numerous now-forgotten villages along Europe's fastest eroding coastline. At the height of its fortunes in the early 14th century, it supplied the king with two ships and armed men to help him fight the Scots. But by 1360, the entire place – which only rose from the sea the previous century - was gone, the floods washing out even the bodies buried in the town graveyard.
The best known account of these lost towns and villages was written by Thomas Sheppard in 1912, who used old accounts and map drawings to figure out the rough locations of settlements claimed by the sea. However people still don’t know whether Ravenser Odd was to the seaward side of Spurn or within the Humber – a sonar survey by academics at the University of Hull in 2022 failed to locate the town. It may never be found.
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