Is
La Brecquette Manor buried beneath these sands?
650
years ago, a man called John Willis owned a large house - the Manor
of La Brecquette, at L'Etacq.
It was surrounded
on two sides by a forest of oak trees. One year, waves moved up St. Ouen's
beach and began to flood the land.
The sea rose
until it covered the manor, and eventually it covered the oak forest as
well.
When the
tide is very low at St. Ouen, you can still see black tree stumps - the
petrified forest, all that remains of the oak trees that once surrounded
the manor.
