The South England flood of February 1287 is one of two huge ones in England in this year.
The other is the one known in the Netherlands as St. Lucia's flood in December, the following winter.
Together with a surge in January 1286, they seem to have prompted the decline of one of England's then leading ports, Dunwich in Suffolk.
Parts of Norfolk are flooded; the port of Dunwich in Suffolk is further devastated; and …
