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The woman who survived a deadly storm and lived alone in a small village for 47 years

Elizabeth Partjon lived peacefully in the English village of Iceland until a deadly storm devastated almost the entire village and caused the escape of all residents except Elizabeth, who remained there alone for decades and subsisted on eggs and fish she fished in the sea.

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Wednesday, 06 January 2021, 00:01

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This is what village life looked like before it was washed into the sea (Cookworthy Museum, Kingsbridge)

Very few people can say they lived in an abandoned village and very possibly no one can say he did it for 47 years.

None other than Elizabeth Partjon who lived in Hassland, a small village in England, from 1917 until her death in 1964.

When Elizabeth was 33, a huge storm hit her village and washed most of what was in it into the sea.

Pretty amazingly, no one was killed in this storm.

79 villagers managed to escape and found safe ground in a higher place.

But Elizabeth was the only person who decided to stay in what was left of this village and live there alone.

She did so, having survived in part thanks to eating eggs from the chickens she raised and fish from the sea.

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This is what the village looks like today

The deadly storm washed 37 homes into the sea, as well as a shop and pub that was in place.

Elizabeth remained loyal to the place and quite heroically, her home remained intact until her death at the age of 80 in 1964.

Shortly before her death she said: "The storm lasted four days and four nights, the sea looked like mountains, I prayed to God that the wind would stop. All my memories are from here, but it is not good to sit depressed."

Pictures revealed from the 1960s show Elizabeth with her cat and rooster in her home with the "sea view".

She was also documented fishing in the sea and was always happy to show tourists who came to the area where she lived and the homes of her former neighbors.

After her death, this village was bought and turned into a summer vacation home.

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