England Coast Path Part 16 Margate to Herne Bay

 Margate to Herne Bay.

14:14 Miles

Time 03:45 Miles

Elevation Gain 351 Feet

We start our day with a walk up the hill of Broadstairs High Street to the station to catch a train to Herne bay & we will walk back to Margate where we intend to visit the Turner art gallery & have a better look around Margate before getting the train back to Broadstairs.

Amy Johnson

Amy Johnson was the first Female to fly solo from London to Australia I can be seen here congratulating her on her achievement. She was no stranger to flight & set many long distance records during her life time.

Recluver Tower

We leave Herne bay passing Recluver Tower & roman fort passing through the car park just as a coach full of Students pull up, We try to keep ahead of the group as they make their way up the path but pausing to take the pictures we get engulfed by them so wait for them to pass.

Hoping that they will stop & start their studies at the Roman fort area they continue to walk a considerable distance & don't stop until they reach the sea wall climbing over it & onto the shingle beach, We think they were geography students studying the beach & not history students studying the Roman fort.

This is a very open path with no shelter from the wind which is continuously blowing into our faces, the open land scape is littered with an excessive amount of plastic rubbish being blown about by the wind with no places to hide, an environmental catastrophe for the area. 

Sculpture of Portland limestone showing of a sitting boy with a boat in his hands.

After our windy but lovely walk we arrive in Margate where they are still filming so we have a 'Nose' around the back of the cinema where we see the trailers parked up with loads of cables going into the cinema, With the fun fair fenced off all part of the film set we go & find a coffee before we go to the Turner art Gallery.

We then go back to the station & our ride back to Broadstairs, we get a little disorientated coming out of Broadstairs station but are shown the right direction by a lovely young man who points us in the right direction & happens to be going our way, we end up walking together down the high street.

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