‘It’s not just our houses’: can a Scottish village save Queen Elizabeth’s coastal path from the waves?
by Rachel Keenan from on (#7046G)
The people of Johnshaven have watched the sea edge closer and closer. Preserving the path is key to protecting their community
Photographs by Murdo MacLeod
When Charis Duthie moved to Johnshaven with her husband in 1984, she could cycle along the coastal path out of the village. Now, she meets a dead end where the sea has snatched the land and is instead greeted with a big red warning sign of what is to come: Danger Coastal Erosion.
You can see gardens that were there and now they're gone," she says.
Johnshaven, on Scotland's North Sea coast, will attract more visitors if it has a well maintained coastal path
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