UK's heritage castles at risk unless England can hold back the tide

Tintagel is one of six vulnerable castles where, English Heritage says, ‘rising sea levels and more regular storms pose a real risk’. Photograph: Nigel Wallace-Iles/English Heritage/PA Media

The wonderful wildness of the spot, a rocky Cornish headland pounded relentlessly by Atlantic breakers, has inspired poets, artists and dreamers for many a century.

But Tintagel, immortalised in British mythology as the place of King Arthur’s conception, is one of a string of castles at risk of tumbling into the sea as climate change increases the pace of coastal erosion.