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Can't see for looking
This is a small cache situated at Teston Bridge Country Park.
Teston Bridge Country Park is the ideal place for a family day out by the river.
There is plenty to keep children busy with a large open, green space to run around in, and an enclosed area with children's play equipment. The site is also the venue for two annual kite flying festivals, which take place in July and August.
On the eastern bank are the picturesque ruins of Tutsham Mill, which are covered in ivy.
Teston Bridge is a Site of Nature Conservation Interest and attracts many different forms of wildlife. Birds such as kingfishers, terns and snipe can be seen from time to time. And during the summer months, bats including pipistrelle, noctule and daubenton glide up and down the banks searching for air-borne insects .
The site is named after Teston Bridge, an historic medieval bridge over the River Medway. The bridge had to be widened in 1749 to allow barges to sail to Maidstone when the river was made navigable.
Teston Lock was built in 1911 and beside it is one of the last weirs on the Medway (Most of the weirs were removed in the 16th Century because of the severe flooding they caused).
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