England Coast Path Part 19 Sittingbourne to Iwade

Distance 10:43 miles

Elevation gain 109 feet

Time 3:39

We start our walk outside Sittingbourne train station and have to do some road walking past some industrial areas, car showrooms, McDonalds  past an old disused elevated concrete road crumbling now fenced off, (Sittingbourne Viaduct) its here that we turn off into a proper industrial estate with rats & rubbish lining the street.

Then to our right a lovely little gate into the Milton creek country park along an industrial fence line eventually opening up into vast expanse of water, The Milton Creek. 

                       We follow the creek for a few miles as it slowly gets wider & wider 

                            Sign posts along the way indicating the direction of the river 

There are some big ships on this expanse of water bringing in goods with large conveyer belts & cranes to transfer the raw materials for the British Gypsum factory from ship to shore.

The bridge is huge & in our sights for many miles before we finally pass under it  past a yacht club across farm land  continuing  into fields separated by the meander's with the bridge still visible behind us. 

Dry cracked pond bed

                                         Sharing the Saxon shore way with the Ecp

                                                  Another rotting hulk in the mud

Finishing our days walking just outside Iwade we get a bus back to Sittingbourne station. another section completed.
 

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