2022年2月27日 · Midway between the town of Aldeburgh and the seaside resort of Southwold, two popular spots on Britain's Suffolk coast, lies the quiet rural village of Dunwich. Around 200 people live in this...

2020年9月24日 · The nocturnal phantom bells at Dunwich, though obvious nonsense, are actually among the more plausible of Britain’s ghost bell traditions. At least churches actually once stood in Dunwich - more than can be said for the locations of many phantom bell legends!

2023年4月5日 · Beneath the waves, off the Suffolk Coast, lies a city taken by the sea through centuries of erosion. Matthew Green revisits Dunwich, a once lively port transfigured into a symbol of loss, both eerie and profound, for generations of …

2021年12月26日 · Local legend suggests that when the conditions are favourable, the church bells can be heard ringing beneath the sea. In recent years, Dunwich, or at least the sizeable part of the town laying on the seabed, has been nicknamed 'Britain's Atlantis'. You can see almost all of the village of Dunwich in about two minutes today.

Dunwich (/ ˈ d ʌ n ɪ tʃ /) is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. It is in the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape around 92 miles (148 km) north-east of London, 9 miles (14 km) south of Southwold and 7 miles (11 km) north of Leiston, on the North Sea coast.. In the Anglo-Saxon period, Dunwich was the capital of the Kingdom of …

2016年2月29日 · Dunwich is a small village 13 miles south of Lowestoft, the most easterly spot on mainland Britain. Most of the thriving port however is over 30 feet (10 metres) beneath the waves. Back in the Anglo-Saxon period, Dunwich was the capital of the Kingdom of East Angles or East Anglia as it is today and it traded with ports all around the North Sea.

At least churches had actually once stood in Dunwich – more than can be said for the lo-cations of many phantom bell legends! Dunwich’s phantom bells peal at night in some versions of the tradition, while in most such legends they are heard before a storm, or on a particular “holy day.”

2022年5月6日 · Dunwich was once the economic and social heart of East Anglia before storm surge and coastal erosion destroyed a once busy medieval town. The tenacity of the local people to continue to build and rebuild places of worship over the years, combined with the lost church bells still ringing on a stormy night creates the myth surrounding this place.

The Dunwich Museum's research notes mention a "several documents referring to maintenance of All Saints Church dated 1723", in which "mention is made of three bells in the steeple the value of which can not be determined until they are removed, 'but they are very small bells'".

The third track on the album Places – “Dunwich Bells” captures the haunting bells of a church at Dunwich, Suffolk England; an ancient city long lost to coast...