Exploring Paglesham Creek, the River Roach & the final resting place of HMS Beagle, the ship in which Charles Darwin circumnavigated the world.
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The Hoo Peninsula The Hoo Peninsula breaks away from north Kent, forming an almost-island between the Thames and Medway estuaries. The…
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Walking
Walking from Allhallows towards the Isle of Grain, exploring the Thames Estuary edges
by Ian TokeloveThe holiday park at Allhallows looks across the Thames towards the distant, cluttered shoreline of Southend-on-Sea. A narrow beach of family-friendly…
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A leg-stretching landscape of tidal flats & landfill, saltmarsh & military defences. Topped off with drinks at the World’s End. This…
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Swanscombe is a small Kentish town, poised on a chalk ridgeline overlooking the River Thames. Home to the first ‘British Cement’…
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This short walk takes us from Allhallows and the remote London Stone to the Grain Tower and the Medway Estuary.
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MOD Shoeburyness is a military testing base on the Thames Estuary. When the red flags aren’t flying, public access is allowed along the footpaths.
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Once busy with barges, Milton Creek is now a forgotten backwater, a saltmarsh landscape with great views and an industrial backdrop.
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The Broomway is an ancient bridleway at Foulness in Essex, an offshore path which is swallowed each day by Thames Estuary tides.
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A Gravesend & Hoo Peninsula walk, taking in the disused Thames & Medway Canal, abandoned forts, an ancient causeway & a missing fighter pilot