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Seaview Duver and Nettlestone Point 20.09.98.
The open ground is a naturally infilled tidal inlet, now a freshwater marsh and lagoon at risk of tidal flooding. It was protected naturally by a small barrier type beach that became the foundation for construction of the coastal road. In recent years the defences protecting the road have deteriorated and a renovation scheme is planned for 2001. Drift on the wide sandy foreshore is from east to west indicated by the distributions of sediment accumulations trapped within the various groyned embayments. Nettlestone Point occupied by the settlement of Seaview is composed of comparatively resistant Bembridge Limestone and forms a partial barrier to littoral drift from the south east.