ABSTRACT
Eastern England as defined in this volume extends from the Humber estuary to the coast of Essex, a distance of 260 km, and as such has one of the largest latitudinal extents of any of the regions in this study. An obvious justification for this can be found in the climatic unity that might be expected in a region of unusually homogeneous orography – in simpler terms, it is the flattest part of the British Isles. The main aim of this chapter is to ascertain the degree to which this generalisation linking orography and climate can be verified. The region is very similar to the Eastern England district as defined by the Meteorological Office, and was also the largest of the areas served by single regional climatological memoranda (Meteorological Office 1989).
