“…Despite a number of palaeoenvironmental records across south-east (SE) England, they are unevenly distributed and concentrated in coastal regions, especially the Kent and East Sussex coast (Kerney et al, 1980;Thorley, 1981;Waller, 1993;Waller and Marlow, 1994;Preece and Bridgland, 1998;Waller et al, 1999;Waller and Hamilton, 2000;Waller and Long, 2010), and the Solent (Scaife, 1980(Scaife, , 1987 (Figure 1). There is also a considerable bias towards records from floodplain locations, particularly along the lower reaches of the River Thames (Gibbard and Hall, 1982;Branch and Lowe, 1994;Wilkinson et al, 2000;Corcoran et al, 2011;Batchelor et al, 2012;Branch et al, 2012;Batchelor et al, 2014;Batchelor et al, 2015;Batchelor et al, 2019) and the Upper River Thames and River Kennett (Healy et al, 1992;Lewis et al, 1992;Parker and Robinson, 2003;Chisham, 2004).…”