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Knipe Point
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Knipe Point viewed from the beach at Cayton Bay
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Knipe Point
Location within North Yorkshire
OS grid reference TA0685
Civil parish
  • Osgodby
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Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town SCARBOROUGH
Postcode district YO11
Dialling code 01723
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54°15′11″N0°22′01″W / 54.253°N 0.367°W / 54.253; -0.367

Knipe Point (or Osgodby Point) is a rocky headland on the North Sea coast, between Cornelian Bay and Cayton Bay in North Yorkshire, England. From this point, and running south, is the steeply sloping clay-till cliff on top of which stood the NALGO holiday camp between 1933 and 1974; this is where Knipe Point Drive was later built. The Cayton Cliff is subject to continuing surface landslips, potentially major at times, [1] such as the one of 2008, known as the Knipe Point Landslide, [2] which received national media attention due to the loss of three homes.

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History

Originally the first Trade Union holiday camp in the North of England, owned by NALGO it opened its doors in 1933. It had 124 wooden bungalows, accommodating 252 visitors. A dining hall with waiter service, a rest room along with recreation rooms for playing cards, billiards, a theatre for indoor shows and dancing was also provided. The new centre also provided Tennis courts, Bowling greens along with a children's play area. The visitors could walk to the beach where there was a sun terrace and beach house which also had a small shop. Click here to see photos of the NALGO camp from the 1930s.

One of the earliest visitors were the family of poet Philip Larkin [3] and during the Second World War it became a home for evacuated children from Middlesbrough. [4] To see a black and white film of the NALGO holiday camp at Knipe Point please see the site of the Yorkshire Film Archive here. [5] The NALGO camp closed in 1974 [6] and was later sold. [7]

The history of the holiday camp can be found in Colin Ward and Dennis Hardy's book "Goodnight Campers!" Spon Press (1986) ISBN   0-7201-1835-2, 0720118360. To preview the book click here [8]

The site became permanent residential homes in 1985 when a planning restriction limiting the site to holiday homes was overruled following an appeal by the owner of the site. [9]

Current owners

A private housing estate consisting of bungalows with views onto the Cayton Bay Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) to view photos of the SSSI click here. [10]

The community is self-regulated by the Knipe Point Owners' Association which negotiated the purchase of the freehold of the land in 2002. This is held by another residents' company, Knipe Point Freeholders Limited, [11] which maintains equality through each member having 500 shares. The members lease their homes to themselves for a nominal ground rent of £1. About half are permanent residents. [12]

Knipe Point landslide

Three homes were demolished in 2008 after an ancient landslide [13] was re-activated due to a prolonged season of heavy rain. To see photos of the demolition click here. [14]

The landslipping behaviour was investigated through a ground investigation and a geomorphological assessment, which identified groundwater movements through the coastal slope as the critical control on triggering of events. [15] There is a great deal of speculation, including suggestions that the site has been affected by the building of a new bypass or that the construction of extensions to the bungalows triggered the failure. [16]

On 15 December 2009 Defra announced that it was awarding Pathfinder Status to Scarborough Borough Council to enable it to add to its programme of work a means of exploring new approaches to planning for, and managing, adaptation to coastal change in partnership with the Knipe Point Drive community. This will run until spring 2011. [17] Landslide report

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References

  1. ↑ "PDZ 11 White Nab to Filey Brigg" (PDF). Cell 1 Shoreline Management Plan 2007. Scarborough Borough Council. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
  2. ↑ "Cayton Bay / Knipe Point landslide - report on options". Professor David Petley, Wilson Professor of Hazard and Risk. Blogspot. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
  3. ↑ "Philip Larkin's family papers". Brynmor Jones Library. Hull University. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
  4. ↑ "Vacuees, By Bill Martin". Matlon School Drama Programme. Malton School. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 13 October 2010.
  5. ↑ "Cayton NALGO Holiday Camp (1950)". National Film Archive. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
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  8. ↑ Denis Hardy; C. Ward (1 January 1990). Goodnight Campers!: The history of the British holiday camp -. Taylor & Francis. ISBN   9780720118353 . Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  9. ↑ "Scarborough Planning Portal" . Retrieved 1 September 2010.
  10. ↑ Humphrey Bolton (18 September 2006). "Pond by the beach, Osgodby". Geograph Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  11. ↑ "Company Information". www.einpay.com. Mavida Finance UK. Retrieved 13 October 2010.
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  13. ↑ P. R. Fish; R. Moore; J. M. Carey. "Landslide geomorphology of Cayton Bay, North Yorkshire, UK". Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 56, 5-14. Yorkshire Geological Society 2006. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
  14. ↑ "Landslip at Knipe Point". BBC North Yorkshire. 12 May 2008. Archived from the original on 26 March 2010.
  15. ↑ "Case Study C: Knipe Point" (PDF). Coastal Issues 2. Environment Agency 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 April 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
  16. ↑ "Landslide report" . Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  17. ↑ "Coastal Change Pathfinders". Defra 2009. Archived from the original on 4 March 2010. Retrieved 25 October 2010.

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