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The
manor under the sea |
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La Brecquette Manor buried beneath these sands? |
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650
years ago, a man called John Willis owned a large house - the Manor
of La Brecquette, at L'Etacq. |
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It
was surrounded on two sides by a forest of oak trees. One year,
waves moved up St. Ouen's beach and began to flood the land.
The
sea rose until it covered the manor, and eventually it covered the
oak forest as well.
When
the tide is very low at St. Ouen, you can still see black tree stumps
- the petrified forest, all that remains of the oak trees that once
surrounded the manor.
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