Excerpt from The Lost Towns of the Yorkshire Coast: And Other Chapters Bearing Upon the Geography of the District From his preface to The Lost Towns of the Humber, it is apparent that the intention of the late J. R. Boyle was to publish a companion volume on the Lost Towns and Churches of the Yorkshire Coast in fact, I am given to understand the first chapter was actually put into type, and the frontispiece (hornsea Church) was engraved for the work, but it got no further. The proof of the chapter was lost, and I regret I never saw it. Upon many occasions I urged Mr. Boyle to complete the work, but as circumstances have prevented this, I have ventured to do it myself. I am well aware of the fact that the present work must lack much that would characterise it were it prepared by the author of The Lost Towns of the Humber, but there is a considerable amount of information now available which may not be so readily accessible to future workers. I am familiar with many aspects of our coast that, through the ravages of the sea, will be denied to succeeding workers. A number of cliff measurements, documents, plans and charts have also, in various ways, come under my notice, many of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.