Take the absence of the tiny railway line which branched off just south of Hunstanton and ran to Wells-on-Sea. In 1953 the east coast of England (along with the Netherlands) suffered their worst floods of modern times: vast areas of land were inundated by massive tidal surges, several hundred people were killed and huge amounts of property was destroyed including this small railway line. The costs of properly rebuilding it were considered too great, and all passenger services ceased from that date.
Incidentally, to those of us from these here parts "Wells-on-Sea" is actually called "Wells-next-the-Sea" (even though centuries of silting means that it is, in fact, now separated from the sea by vast expanses of glorious and formidable salt marsh). The railways changed the names of a number of settlements for their own convenience, only some of which stuck.
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