Barton on Sea

Barton on Sea is a village that has spent a century and a half quietly falling into the English Channel, and its residents have responded by building a golf course on the bit that's left. The cliffs are famous for fossils, which is either a geological distinction or a description of the demographic, depending on how charitable you're feeling. Nobody moves here to be somewhere on the way to anywhere. They move here because the sea view is worth more than the sea is stable, and they have made their peace with the arithmetic.