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A personal rediscovery of Romney Marsh and beyond


SEA HOLLY

4 August 2020
What is Sea Holly? Also known a Eryngium maritime,  here’s the Wikipedia entry
...


CHURCHES OF ROMNEY MARSH

20 July 2020
Romney Marsh is also well-known for its historic churches. Here are just a few
of the most significant ones worth a visit and the villages where they are
found. Old Romney – St Clement’s Church  (photo above) – This church is one of
the oldest in Kent and is also...


ROMNEY MARSH DRAINAGE SYSTEM

19 July 2020
I’ve become fascinated by the drainage system of Romney Marsh since I discovered
that the outfall at Littlestone/Greatstone (by the Lifeboat station) is from the
New Romney Marsh “sewer” (or drain). My early research has taken me to a number
of different websites, but as usual, the Romney Marsh website...


HYTHE (AND SURROUNDING AREA)

19 July 2020
Hythe is a coastal market town on the edge of Romney Marsh. For me as a child,
Hythe was always just the last stop on the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway
line. If we travelled to Hythe, we really didn’t venture much further into the
town, but now that I’ve...


ST MARY’S BAY, DYMCHURCH AND MARTELLO TOWERS

2 July 2020
Moving north along the coast from Littlestone (albeit by road that means up to
New Romney first) you then come to St Mary’s Bay. Wikipedia reminded me (from
driving along the road when I was young) that … “during the 1950s and 1960s, St
Mary’s Bay was a popular...


ROMNEY, HYTHE AND DYMCHURCH RAILWAY

1 July 2020
The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway (RH&DR) is a 15 in (381 mm) gauge light
railway operating steam and diesel locomotives. The 13 3⁄4-mile (22.1 km) line
runs from Hythe to Dungeness The New Romney station is the headquarters for the
railway, lying 8 1/2  miles by train from Hythe station and 5 miles from
Dungeness station....


DUNGENESS FISHERMAN’S HUTS (AND PROSPECT COTTAGE)

18 June 2020
As explained in a previous post, fishing has been an important part of Dungeness
life for many years. Many of the original Victorian wooden fisherman’s huts have
now been converted into holiday homes or even permanent homes.  Some of them
have now become architectural projects, as an article in...


SEAGULLS

14 June 2020
Although we tend to refer to all the seabirds on the coast as seagulls, as
the RSPB points out “The word seagull is actually an informal way of referring
to any of the species that belong to the family Laridae, the gulls. There is not
actually a single species called...


HAGSTONES

13 June 2020
After writing my last post about Fishing at Dungeness I decided to have a closer
look at The Pilot Inn website where I came across a page on Hagstones – that is
stones with holes running all the way through them I remember finding a stone
with a hole in...


FISHING AT DUNGENESS

7 June 2020
There is a long history of fishing at Dungeness, as The Romney Marsh website
explains: “Up to the 1960s, boats on Dungeness were spaced out and opposite
dwellings between the Pilot and the Cabin/Spion Cop. Bait digging, shrimping and
fishing with nets for herring, mackerel and sprats were all practised. Pre-war,
catches were...


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 * Sea Holly
   4 August 2020
 * Churches of Romney Marsh
   20 July 2020
 * Romney Marsh drainage system
   19 July 2020
 * Hythe (and surrounding area)
   19 July 2020
 * St Mary’s Bay, Dymchurch and Martello Towers
   2 July 2020
 * Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway
   1 July 2020
 * Dungeness fisherman’s huts (and Prospect Cottage)
   18 June 2020
 * Seagulls
   14 June 2020
 * Hagstones
   13 June 2020
 * Fishing at Dungeness
   7 June 2020


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