Today’s walk is fairly short and doesn’t actually have a massive amount of shoreline as there is no public access for much of it!
I start at the western foot of the Motney Hill peninsular…
I soon reach the point where the path heads inland. The northern half of the peninsular is home to a sewage works and is fenced off. Although it comes to a dead end, I turned left onto the beach just to see how far it went but the aroma wafting over persuaded me to turn back after a couple of hundred yards!
The path follows the road up to the sewage works then turns right and heads back to the shore on the eastern side of the peninsular.
After a short bit of zig-zaggy shoreline…
…it was back inland for quite a way. Most of the coastline of the Upchurch peninsular seems to be private land with no public right of way. As a result you have to cut diagonally across it to meet the shore half way down the other side.
There is a fair bit of road walking involved…
After an hour or so I’m back at the coast near Ham Green. The coastal path from here all the rest of the way to Lower Halstow is well-made and mostly runs on top of grassy banks alongside the estuary mud.
About half way along this section I pass Twinney Wharf which seemed eerily deserted…
On reaching Lower Halstow I find more boats, including this big old barge…
Apparently it is one of two boats run by Tiller And Wheel who offer boats trips to the public!
So that is today’s walk done. I’ve just realised that there were no old pill boxes on this walk! That’s a first! Maybe nobody thought the Upchurch area was worth defending…
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