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Porlock weir is a place that can almost be imagined as having been lost and nearly forgotten as the modern world rushed on at twice Porlock speed!

It has a seemingly impossible entrance to its harbour which in times of rough seas must be a heart stopper for sailors trying for safety.

The beach such as it is is made up of grey boulders which due to the fierce currents of the Bristol Channel need to be kept from being washed along the coast.

Man’s answer to natures persistent erosion is to form “groynes” made from wooden piles driven vertically deep into the pebbles and laced horizontally with more wooden beams in an effort to stop the march of the pebbles to aptly named “Hurlestone Point” at the other end of the bay.

Tide, time and the elements have worn and bleached these man made defenses and they have taken on an almost artistic look … now decayed and studded with the stones they seek to retain.