As the fetch and prevailing winds are from the south west, material will be moved eastwards along the coast by longshore drift. 2 after headland x the direction of the original coastline changes and larger material shingle is deposited in water sheltered by the headland b. 3 further deposition of finer material sand enables the feature to build up slowly to sea level c and to extend its length d. During this time some material at the end of the spit may be pushed inland to form a curved end e. When the wind returns to its usual direction the spit resumes its growth eastwards f.

5 spits become permanent when sand is blown up the beach, by the prevailing wind, to form sand dunes. 7 the spit is unable to grow across the estuary as the river current carries material out to sea. If you like the site and feel your adverts would be relevent to the area or subject, you can advertise your business here for a very economical rate. I want to maintain the special relationship this site has with hengistbury head so i would like to restrict adverts to those relevent to the local area or subject matter. As you may know this site started out, initially on some free webspace at the end of 2001. Prior to this i had gone through the ritual most parents do in helping their children mug up on the site for their geography gcse coursework.

We found it difficult to find information, not that it did not exist, but the few books available were almost always booked out from the local libraries. However, our turn for the books came, and learn we did! i have lived here for most of my life and until the enforced fatherly duties with the coursework i am ashamed to say, my knowledge of local history was non existent. I only began to appreciate the many facets of hengistbury head after i had gone through the paternal rigours of gcse coursework no less than four times! i had a couple of weeks spare at the end of 2001 and decided to build a site.

The site is now visited by around 60 unique visitors per month with almost 20,0 individual pages views per month. The original very simple frames format has become ever more difficult to maintain as more and more information was added. Although no longer using frames the concept of a fixed menu with a scrollable window is maintained. In order to make the website pay its way i have decided to include a limited amount of advertising on the site, the majority of which will be directly related to hengistbury head and/or the surrounding area. However the ethos of the site, as a free educational resource for both school students and casual interested parties remains.

The site is an independant web site and is neither financed or controlled by any bodies other than me. All material on this site including text, layout and images except for the material from google and gnu images are copyright copy 19 150 2011 bill rees. The primary aim of this site is to provide an educational resource for both school amp college students and the interested public. Consequently you are free to download and duplicate copyrighted text and images from the those parts of this site which are owned by the web site owner and on condition that downloads are used for personal or educational purposes.

Any downloads must not be used for profit, for commercial use, or for incorporation in any media that is offered 'for sale' or otherwise commissioned for payment without getting my written permission first. The standard question i get is can i use some data/images in a school/college project? the answer to that is always yes. It would be nice if practicable if you could mention the site url near the item used.