5464 x 3070 px | 46,3 x 26 cm | 18,2 x 10,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
31 marzo 2025
Ubicazione:
The Leas, Kingsdown, Kent, UK
Altre informazioni:
A popular circular walk along the Kent coast from the village of Kingsdown to St Margaret's Bay. The route runs along a section of the Saxon Shore Way and the White Cliffs Country Trails, two long distance trails running through the area. It's just over 6 miles along beach side paths and cliff tops before returning on an inland bridle path to return to Kingsdown. The walk starts at the Zetland Arms pub on the front in Kingsdown, just south of Deal. From here you can pick up the waymarked trails and follow them south along the shingle beach to Hope Point and Coney Burrow Point. Here you climb up to the cliff top for some excellent views over the area. The route then descends to St Margaret's Bay where you can enjoy some refreshments at the cafe. The route then heads to St Margaret's at Cliffe village. Here you pick up footpaths and bridle tracks to take you north along the western side of the golf course. There's more nice views here before descending back into Kingsdown. *to bay from k. At the far end of Oldstairs Bay, the famous White Cliffs of Dover begin to rise above the English Channel (picture 13). A flight of steps climbs up to the top of the cliff, where there is a superb view back over Kingsdown and Deal Pier (picture 14). Using my binoculars, I could also make out the low cliffs of Ramsgate, almost twenty kilometres away. The grassy path runs along a few metres behind the cliff edge with the Walmer & Kingsdown Golf Course off to the right. The coast here gradually curves to the right and the path follows the clifftops across the large, empty fields of the National Trust's Bockhill Farm, heading for the tall needle of the Dover Patrol Memorial on the skyline ahead (picture 15). The 25 metre high obelisk of the Dover Patrol Memorial (picture 16) stands on the cliff top in memory of those members of the Dover Patrol and the royal and merchant navies lost in the two world wars.
