An international team of researchers who discovered a vast network of stone walls along the River Nile in Egypt and Sudan say these massive ‘river groynes’ reveal an exceptionally long-lived form of ...

Seaford Beach from the East Cliff in about 1910. The large numbers of wooden groynes have restricted longshore drift. The beach is quite wide and in the foreground the storm berm is a considerable ...

Hornsea is protected by a sea wall, groynes and rock armour. Coastal management at Withernsea has tried to make the beach wider by using groynes, and also uses a seawall to protect the coast.

This photograph taken about 1930 shows the construction of the undercliff walk. The wooden groynes in the foreground were built soon after the First World War, if not earlier. Parts of the undercliff ...