"My parents wanted this to their final resting place, but it isn't going to be because of the sea. Projections suggest at least part of the churchyard could fall into the sea in the next 80 years, but Mason fears it will happen much sooner. I think it's got less than 20 years, if you look at what's happened in the last 30 years, he said."
"Mason suggested relocating the graves to land beside a water tower the highest point in the village and thinks the church should pay for the move. Sarah Greenwood accepts that her grandparents' graves at Happisburgh will have to be relocated but says the time has not yet come. She argues that the immediacy of the threat has been exaggerated in the local press. It is very emotive it made me ill over the summer, she said."
North Norfolk District Council identified three church graveyards in Happisburgh, Trimingham, and Mundesley as at risk from coastal erosion. A range of options includes taking no action, implementing defenses, or exhuming remains and reburying them inland. The council and the Church of England have left the decision to local communities. A lack of consensus and delayed decisions have left bereaved families frustrated and anxious. Some relatives want graves relocated promptly before further erosion, while others say the threat is not yet immediate and criticize emotive media coverage. Local erosion rates lead to widely differing projected timescales.
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