Countdown to oblivion: Drone images reveal how homes along Britain's crumbling coast have as little as FIVE months before they crash into the sea

EXCLUSIVE: Clock is ticking for residents living in homes along crumbling Yorkshire's coastline

Some properties have just six months before they crash into sea due to the unrelenting cliff erosion The clock is ticking for residents living on along Britain's crumbling cliffs - with some homeonwers looking at less than six months before their homes crash into the sea. Owners of doomed homes in erosion hotspots fear they have been abandoned by the Government with coastal defence measures restricted to more populated areas.

In Withernsea, Martin Overton and 50 of his neighbours, say their properties have only been spared because they live near a key road to the gas terminal at Easington. Mr Overton, 69, a retired buyer of mining and tunnelling equipment, used a tape measure to demonstrate to a MailOnline reporter how the gap between the cliffedge and the homes of nearby residents has shrunk to just 90cm.

Mr Overton had lived in the seaside town for 16 years when he moved to his current address four years ago.

The plight of residents living along this endangered stretch of the East Riding coast are among the thousands desperately worried about losing their homes to the sea around Britian.

Cornwall, Cumbria, Dorset and Norfolk are other at-risk areas, where the unrelenting force of mother nature is chipping away at the land upon which their homes stand. But for how much longer?

(Less than three feet to oblivion: Some of the homes along the Withernsea coast are perilously close to the cliffedge after many years of erosion)

(Martin Overton demonstrates how bad coastal erosion has affected homes along the coast in Withernsea. The retired retired buyer of mining and tunnelling equipment reveals there is just 90cm - less than three feet - between some properties and the cliff edge)

(Mobile homes long the coast in Withernsea, East Yorkshire have as little as 90cm between them and the edge of the cliff.)

He was then devastated to learn that his new home was predicted to be at the bottom of the 50ft cliffs in five years.

He watched in horror as the cliffs began to crumble. He told Mail on Line: “The sea just whips in. When you get a high spring tide it tears it to pieces.

“When I saw my garden was 80 meters from the edge I thought it was the end. A lot of people down my street could not sell their houses. “No one could get a mortgage because of the erosion so people just rented them out and hoped for the best.

“I used to walk my dog down the beach and it was a regular thing to see the chalet falling off the cliff into the sea.

“One house had to be physically moved about 100 meters from the edge of the cliff to the edge of the road. But it is hanging off the cliff again now.

“Since I have been living here I have seen the chip shop go, a whole night club on the holiday camp next door go, and then everything on that side of the road.”

(COASTAL EROSION: THE AREAS MOST AT RISK BY 2040))

(Six months left? With the coastal erosion rate of 223ft every 20 years, estimates would suggest these properties have less than six months before the ground beneath them gives way.)

(Denise Crosland from Hornsea who's home is now close to the edge of the cliff. She says the erosion is actually worse in the summer, when the cliffs dry out)

(The Hornsea mobile homes facing oblivion: Erosion is ripped more than 200ft away from the coast over 20 years)

(Not long left: Hornsea properties have a stunning sea view, but it has been getting a little too close for comfort with every passing year)

(Tracie Brame from Hornsea who's home is now incredibly close to the edge of the cliff.)

(Keith Naylor from Tunstall who's home (far left) is now close to the edge of the cliff. The red brick house has already been condemned. It is now just 30ft from the edge, and could crash into the sea in three years.)

(Maureen Dunn from Tunstall who's home is now close to the edge of the cliff so she has moved into a mobile home in a field nearby)

(Maureen Dunn's Tunstall home has been condemned, forcing her to move into a mobile home nearby.)

(Keith Naylor from Tunstall. He said: 'Last summer we felt abandoned and nowt has got any better since. The cliffs have continued to crumble away and we have lost a few more feet.')

(The broken road near Keith Naylor's Tunstall home. The sea has claimed some 200ft of the land over the last 20 years)

(Chris Ogden from Filey who's holiday home is now close to the edge of the cliff. The cliff have eroded some 131ft in 20 years)

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