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The limitless flat salt marshes stretch out beyond the narrow channel.

The limitless flat salt marshes stretch out beyond the narrow channel.

This is one of the final stretches of golden sand that once graced the foreshore at Parkgate before the estuary totally silted up and salt marsh encroached.

Initially the village developed along a road constructed on a causeway across the marshes between the castle and a possible wharf near Bramber Bridge.

The links were created on the Morfa (marsh or sea brink), a tract of well-drained land from which the sea has receded.

Looking across the Ypres Tower from the parish church roof, the marshes are much bleaker than now, with the Rother winding through the treeless flat land.

To the memorial's right is the half-timbered group of buildings housing the New Bridge Cafe and Marsh's Commercial College.

Taunton is a town surrounded by water, with the Tone passing through its heart and the marshes not far away.

This scene is worthy of a painting; it shows a typical windpump used to drain the reclaimed marshes.

Romney Marsh.

This view encompasses the whole village looking across the extensive salt marshes, which are a haven for birds of every description, especially wild-fowl and migrating birds.

Other grand houses in the Cotswolds, such as Chastleton House near Moreton-in-the-Marsh, are built in a similar design.

The subsequent retreat of the sea and the reclamation of the surrounding marshes resulted in a lengthening coastline.

At that time, of course, Athelney was an island in the marshes, and eminently defensible.

Most of the area we see is now smothered with modern housing, and the countryside cut off by the fast dual carriageway to Romney Marsh.

Standing on the fringes of the Norfolk marshes, Blakeney, like Cley, once knew busier days.

At the Royal Hotel on the left the author first sampled samphire, a Norfolk delicacy found growing in salt marshes around the coast.

Dymchurch's other literary son was Russell Thorndike; he penned the 'Dr Syn' series of novels, concerning the activities of Romney Marsh smugglers.

A famous curate was the Reverend Richard Barham, who later moved to Romney Marsh and wrote the 'Ingoldsby Legends'.

The Sussex Turnpike Trust was set up in 1749 to maintain the road from Hindhead Heath to Chichester with a tollgate at Kingsley Marsh (now Green).

Upper Green was originally known as Marsh Green, but it has long since been drained.

Isolated on an island amidst the marshes, the community grew lax and neglected their religious discipline; the monks developed a taste for worldly comforts.

Marsh's Stores, shown on the right, is currently the village's general store and post office, while a modern building fills the gap to the left of the stores.

In the days when trading wherries plied their way up and down the rivers, transporting goods from the East Coast sea ports, or from one town to another, Beccles, set alongside the marsh-lined River Waveney