Showing posts with label Broomway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Broomway. Show all posts

Thursday, 2 July 2015

More photos of an adventurous walk to Forbidden Foulness Island last Saturday via a tidal walk along the ancient Broomway, an unmarked six-mile right of way across the Black Grounds and Maplin and Foulness Sands.

Walking the Broomway can be hazardous because there are no waymarks and the tide comes in extremely fast. Anyone who gets lost out there will be swept away when the tide comes in. Use of a compass and tide tables are essentially and never attempt this route in poor visibiity.

When we did this walk last year, we found a dead body but this years walk went according to plan







Monday, 29 June 2015

Yesterdays adventurous walk to Forbidden Foulness Island

This was a tidal walk along the ancient Broomway, an unmarked six-mile right of way across the Black Grounds and the Maplin and Foulness Sands. Thought to have been blazed by the Romans, this route to England’s fourth largest island has been in use for 2,000 years and was the only access until 1922 when a road bridge was built.

The bridge is not available to the public as the island is used as a weapons testing centre and public access is restricted. Although the Broomway remains a right of way, it is only passable at low tide, and there are warnings of quicksand and unexploded ordnance....