Romney Marsh

9th May 2007

I have known and loved the Romney Marsh area since I was a child but it has changed a great deal since then. No longer is most of its acreage devoted to sheep pasture - today 90 per cent of the Marsh is ploughed up for wheat, potatoes, and that bane of the hay fever sufferer, oil seed rape. Dungeness is no longer an empty, desolate peninsula - instead it is dominated by the two nuclear power stations and massive gravel workings.

But there are places that still retain their historic marshland form and beauty and I hope that my photographs have captured some of their true feel.

Stormy winter seas at Dymchurch	New Hall, Dymchurch	Dymchurch parish church	Prospect Cottage at Dungeness
Boats, huts and shingle at Dungeness	Yellow-horned poppy at Dungeness	The old lighthouse at Dungeness	Old sea cliffs near Rye
The Royal Military Canal near Appledore	Lonely Fairfield church on Romney Marsh	Old Romney church	St Mary's Bay before the holiday crowds arrived
The remains of Stutfall Castle, near Hythe	Dungeness - power and light	Pre WWII sound mirrors at Denge	Shingle ridges at Dungeness
The Royal Military Canal near Hythe	Yellow Iris	Near Appledore	Appledore - the Royal Military Canal
Appledore and the Royal Military Canal	Near Appledore	Fairfield	The Woolpack near Brookland