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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A Gravesend & Hoo Peninsula walk, taking in the disused Thames & Medway Canal, abandoned forts, an ancient causeway & a missing fighter pilot
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This looping Medway shoreline walk offers big skies & saltmarsh, a ship graveyard & a crumbling 17th century fort, a Second World War Stop Line & a Soviet submarine
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The Swanscombe Peninsula juts sharply into the Thames, a precious haven for wildlife which thrives across rewilded brownfield & landfill. And now it is threatened.
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Shellness lies at the eastern edge of the Isle of Sheppey, an end-of-the-road, low headland overlooking the North Sea. The saltwater…
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Queenborough and Ladies Hole Point, walking an old rail line towards a saltmarsh spit
by Ian TokeloveAt Queenborough, on the Isle of Sheppey, the channel of the Swale curves sharply around a spit, which is tipped with…