£59.50 (Non JG member)
Overview
The Romney Marsh is a mysterious region of Kent, rich in history and legend. Meet the Blue Badge Guide at Dobbies Garden Centre for morning refreshments (not included in price), before driving out onto the remote Romney Marsh. Marshmen established a wild reputation with smuggling and felonious deeds rife in a world where men drank beer a full century before the rest of the country and evacuated their sheep before their women during the war! The bleak, timeless character of the marsh made it popular with artists and writers including Noël Coward and Ian Fleming who found inspiration from marsh place names like Moneypenny Farm. We’ll stop and visit one of the mediaeval churches that pepper the marsh. Dotted across the peculiar landscape of Dungeness – the UK’s only desert – there are old railway carriages first dragged across the shingle nearly one hundred years ago. Today they change hands for an awful lot of money. We stop here for fresh fish & chips with a cup of tea and a slice at the legendary Pilot Inn. After lunch we take a pleasant drive via Camber Sands to Rye.