The Thames at Thamesmead is a mix of new build apartments and industries; many of the latter are by the river so they can move materials in and out on ships on the high tide. A number of moored barges sit idly on the water but at night carry much of London’s rubbish to tips…
Tag: River Thames
Mucking and Cooling
The mudflats at Mucking that run north from Coalhouse Fort support a great flock of avocet as well as smaller numbers of shelduck, curlew, knot, dunlin, redshank and grey plover. The birds are safe from disturbance as the mud is separated from the coastal path by a stodgy stretch of saltmarsh. A peregrine roosts on…
Dartford marshes
The Darent is a chalk stream, not quite big enough to be classed as a river, running north off the greensand ridge beyond Westerham past the Roman villa at Lullingstone, on through Eynsford, past a former paper mill at South Darenth and onto Dartford, where it navigates the park and then the industrial end and…