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From the Swale to Bedlams Bottom, a Medway Marshes walk

by Ian Tokelove August 19, 2023

August 19, 2023

A circular walk in the Medway Marshes, from the Sheppey Crossing to the wrecks at Bedlams Bottom, then back to the …

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Exploring Milton Creek, from Sittingbourne to the Swale

by Ian Tokelove December 1, 2021

December 1, 2021

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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Elmley Cement Works and a lost village on the Isle of Sheppey

by Ian Tokelove August 4, 2020

August 4, 2020

Elmley Island is nestled within the belly of the Isle of Sheppey, an island within an isle. Although no longer a …

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Remote London

Remote London is a website dedicated to the quieter, wilder side of Greater London and beyond. Places away from the crowds, where nature can flourish undisturbed. Places where you can walk and see few others.

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Walking the River Roach: Rochford to Barling Ness
From the Swale to Bedlams Bottom, a Medway Marshes walk
Walking the River Roding, from Redbridge to the Barking Creek Barrier & the Thames
Walking the River Ebbsfleet, from Northfleet Harbour to its Springhead source
Yantlet Creek: a short walk between two estuaries, the Thames & Medway
Walking the River Crouch: Burnham on Crouch to North Fambridge
Walking MOD Shoeburyness and the Wakering creeks
Exploring Milton Creek, from Sittingbourne to the Swale
Walking the Broomway, Britain’s deadliest footpath
Walking the Mardyke and the lost fens of Essex

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Pyramids of marine gravel, dredged deep from the T

Pyramids of marine gravel, dredged deep from the Thames Estuary and offloaded at an aggregates site by Cliffe Fort on the Hoo Peninsula. Sand is also offloaded here, so there's always a beach - admittedly a chilly beach last weekend.
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A winter sunset at Cliffe Fort on Kent’s Hoo Pen

A winter sunset at Cliffe Fort on Kent’s Hoo Peninsula.
As darkness fell the abundant birdlife began to settle. Unseen wings beating low overhead as geese flew to roost sites, occasional wildfowl bursting from inky cover, & the crunch of my steps on a dark, icy path home.
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#RemoteLondon #HooPeninsula #HighamCreek #CliffeFort #ThamesEstuary #Estuary #Thames #NorthKentMarshes #EnglandCoastPath #CliffeMarshes #CliffePools #CoastPath

A wintry, weekend walk at Cliffe Pools, part of th

A wintry, weekend walk at Cliffe Pools, part of the North Kent Marshes on the Hoo Peninsula. Lots of over-wintering birdlife, precious few people. It’s a beautiful, flat landscape of water, tidal mudflats and old workings. Closest train station is Higham, an hour out of London.
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An evening walk on the edge of town. Power lines s

An evening walk on the edge of town. Power lines slicing the sky above a winding river and rutted fields of winter stubble.
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Medway seascapes, walking in soft rain with a frie

Medway seascapes, walking in soft rain with a friend on Sunday. Out from Strood to Kingsnorth, then back via inland paths.
The Medway shipyards were once heavily guarded & forgotten fortifications still dot the shoreline, from WWII pillboxes to the eroding, red-bricked Cockham Wood Fort, dating to 1669
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Remnants of an abandoned wharf on the Mucking Flat

Remnants of an abandoned wharf on the Mucking Flats, overlooking the Thames Estuary in Essex. From a walk into last Sunday’s gale-force winds.
This old wharf probably served the massive Mucking Marshes landfill site. For many years, London’s trash was shipped downriver by barge & discarded in Essex. The shoreline of the Thames Estuary is dotted with such sites.
#RemoteLondon #ThamesEstuary #Estuary #Thames #RiverThames #Edgelands #TidalThames #MuckingFlats #MuckingMarshes #Thurrock #Landfill #AbandonedWharf #AbandonedJetty

‘Engaging with the Intertidal Zone’: a guided

‘Engaging with the Intertidal Zone’: a guided walk across saltmarsh and into Benfleet Creek, led by Gerolamo Gnecchi with @sylak_ravenspine, as part of @EstuaryFestival
Once down in the creek the mud is soft and welcoming, in places ready to hold the unwary in an unwanted embrace. Colours and sound are muted, just the soft sizzle of rain on water, and the suck of silt beneath one’s feet. Loved it.
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Wandering below the coastal cliff path. Old quarry

Wandering below the coastal cliff path. Old quarry workings at Winspit Quarry and St Aldhelm's Head. Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, last Monday.
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The small but fabulous St Aldhelm's Chapel, poised

The small but fabulous St Aldhelm's Chapel, poised on a Dorset headland, a stone's throw from towering sea cliffs and far below, the crashing Atlantic swell.
Dating from the 12th century, stone-carved graffiti testifies to its age, painstakingly carved by the long dead.
The chapel may have first been a military watchtower or a beacon, before conversion in the 12th century.
A nearby modern lookout station, staffed by volunteers, also watches over the seas. Built in the 1970s, the lookout is leased to the National Coastwatch Institution on a curious rent of ‘one crab per annum if demanded’.
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Etched by rust and pocked by salt winds, this WW2

Etched by rust and pocked by salt winds, this WW2 turret still watches over the remote, coastal paths at Seacombe Cliff on the Isle of Purbeck.
It’s a rare survivor, one of less than 200 Allan-Williams Turrets manufactured in 1939-40. Designed for a crew of two and equipped with a mounted machine gun, the turret rotated through 360 degrees, providing an all-round field of fire.
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Deptford: the tide falls back beneath a cold iron

Deptford: the tide falls back beneath a cold iron sky. Low waves scour the foreshore.
Random, disjointed voices drift down from the world above, and float low across the river from the distant Isle of Dogs.
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Lunch break at the @barbicancentre, overlooking re

Lunch break at the @barbicancentre, overlooking remnants of London’s old Roman wall, in the company of a male common darter. This beautiful dragonfly was using me as a launch platform, as he hunted tiny midges.
Dragonflies aren’t just pretty, they’re also one of the planets most proficient predators, with a kill rate that can hit 97%. Along with amazing eyesight and flying skills, they can predict their prey’s movement, effectively planning ahead and intercepting their lunch on the go!
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