Top of Page Pictures
On this page you will find descriptions and relevent links for the pictures that appear at the top of every page. They are listed in the order they appear on the page.
St Thomas à Becket Church in Fairfield stands alone in a field on the Marsh, surrounded by water courses and sheep.
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St Thomas à Becket Church
Fairfield
Historic Churches
The Old Lighthouse at Dungeness offers unique and perfect views over the 500 cuspate shingle ridges, created primarily by longshore drift, that have formed the foreland, one of the largest in the world and the greatest example in the UK.
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The Old Lighthouse Lighthouses at Dungeness
Dungeness
Sunrise over Greatstone Beach
The picture was taken early morning on Greatstone Beach.
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Greatstone
Greatstone Beach
Weather
The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway operates the most complete collection of one third full size Steam Locomotives in the world, running on tracks just 15inches apart.
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Romney, HYthe & Dymchurch Railway
picture courtesy of Robbie Graig
Horse Riding on Greatstone Beach
The long stretches of flat, firm sand can suit many sports, including horse riding.
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Greatstone
Greatstone Beach
The Royal Military Canal runs for 28 miles between Seabrook in the north east and Cliff End in the south west, following the old cliff line which borders Romney Marsh.
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Royal Military Canal
Wars with the French
The former parish of Hope, the Hope Church of All Saints was built c1150 but fell into decay in the 17th century.
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Lost Churches of Romney Marsh
Historic Churches
Dungeness is the largest cuspate foreland in Britain, and globally very unusual because it is formed predominantly of flint shingle.
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Dungeness
Dungeness History
The Day of Syn is a bi-annual event in Dymchurch using the local theme of smuggling and the Dr Syn stories by Russell Thorndike
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Day of Syn Dr Syn Russell Thorndike
Dymchurch
Dymchurch Beach
The beach at Littlestone, which is predominently shingle with wooden groynes and multi-coloured beach and fishermans' huts.
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Littlestone
Beaches
24 Pounder Cannon on top of Martello Tower No.24 in Dymchurch. Martello Tower No. 24 was one of 74 towers built along the south coast between 1805 and 1812 to resist the threatened French invasion.
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Martello Tower No.24 Wars with the French
Landyachting on Greatstone Beach
The is much to see and do on Romney Marsh.
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Landyachting
See and Do on Romney Marsh
Greatstone Greatstone Beach
'Romney Marsh' by William Lionel Wyllie
William Lionel Wyllie, born in 1851, was a prolific English painter of maritime themes in both oils and watercolours. His work is in the Tate, the Royal Academy, the Imperial War Museum, the National Maritime Museum and many other galleries
Photo courtesy of KIm Gandy
The World, according to the best geographers, is divided into Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Romney Marsh.
Romney Marsh is known as The Fifth Continent. Thomas Ingoldsby, the pen name of 19th century author and cleric
Richard Harris Barham (sometime Rector of St Dunstan, Snargate), wrote in the above his The Ingoldsby Legends
