Landslide At Blackgang Beach

Earlier this week there was a landslide at Blackgang Beach.

Landslide At BlackgangTwo slides, one about 200m further back from the other, came down, with some of the lower one ending up in the sea.

VentnorBlog reader Chris Welsford tells us that the lower one was about 30m (100ft) wide, “The photo doesn’t really portray how dramatic the slide is,” he said.

“Don’t walk on cliff edges”
A keen walker, Chris told us, “The ground along a lot of the cliffs around the south coast are still sodden with water.

“People should take care along coastal paths and not go near the cliff edge. There are areas when the cliff underneath the edge had fallen away, leaving an overhang.”

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Image: © Used with the kind permission of Chris Welsford