text: File:Freiston Shore low tide.jpg Freiston Shore Managed Realignment site, Lincolnshire ‎In the UK, the first managed retreat site was an area of 8,000 square metres at Northey Island in Essex flooded in 1991, followed by larger sites at Tollesbury and Orplands (1995), Freiston Shore (2001) and Abbott's Hall (2002) and a number of others.