Britain as the home of Atlantis has been claimed by many writers and not without undertones of nationalism by some of the British authors. Nevertheless, support for the idea has been offered by a number of the more disinterested researchers.

The precise location, the exact date and the probable cause of the destruction of Atlantis are the basis for a range of theories. There is general acceptance that following the deglaciation at the end of the last Ice Age vast regions of low-lying land that had linked Ireland and Britain to mainland Europe were gradually flooded. These lands had been settled and following the inundations its inhabitants forced to retreat to the higher ground of what is modern Europe and the British Isles.

One school of thought is that these flooded regions contained Atlantis and the other is that it was destroyed by the impact of a comet or asteroid as believed by Dunbavin and Spence. Britain and exposed land around it sank around 6,500 years ago with waters rising by ten feet.

 E. J. de Meester on his now defunct website postulated a link between Stonehenge and Atlantis. After arbitrarily dividing Plato’s dimensions by ten, he suggests that the plain described by Plato lay in a rectangle between Salisbury and Chichester.

Donald Ingram has brazenly declared that the Atlanteans can be identified with the Wessex II culture of Britain. A June 2010 blog ^(a) seems to give some support to this idea.

^(a) http://sabidius.blogspot.com/2010/06/atlantis-was-it-britain.html