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Although you do not need to do the food trail to find the cache,
the trail offers you a wonderful day out walking and taking in the
local sights, along with enjoying a meal or drink at one of the
area’s fine local eateries or pubs.
Step back in time on the trail of Faversham’s Two
Creeks Walk and discover the rich maritime and farming
legacy that made this area the Larder of London. You’ll be
captivated by the area’s stunning and historic shoreline,
where tales of its commercial past and smuggling still abound.
Once bustling with sailing barges bound for London, the creeks
at Faversham and Oare and the surrounding farmland remain a
memorial to a golden maritime age. Now an oasis for pleasure boats,
walkers, wildlife and livestock, at every turn you’ll be
reminded of the part played by the area’s productive
countryside in feeding the nation and the mark it made on a
community that prospered on the doorstep of London.
Your walk passes through Faversham’s historic market town
centre, dominated by the distinctive crown spire of its parish
church, where bustling streets are lined with specialist shops and
restaurants, and tearooms pour onto the pavements. On Tuesdays,
Fridays and Saturdays there’s also the street market - the
oldest in Kent. You’ll pass Shepherd Neame – the
country’s oldest brewer - producing beer and lager from local
hops and barley since at least 1698 in Court Street – a focal
point for Faversham’s world famous hop festival each
September.
There’s also the chance to visit Abbey Street, with one of
the country’s finest collections of period houses, home to
the welcoming Inn, a local for maritime craftsmen to this day.
Then it’s on to the creekside, crossing the Victorian
swing bridge to your waterside route, where Faversham’s
farming and industrial past loom large. Once a hive of activity,
with boats trading grain, hops, fruit, oysters, bricks, cement and
gunpowder, in the 17th century more grain was exported to London
from here than any other English port.
Next is Crab Island and the site of the town’s former
shipyard, where 2,000 vessels were launched, before you stride out
into open countryside to the sea wall. Here sheep and cattle greet
you in the fertile farmland, meadows and open marshes they share
with wild flowers and wetland birds.
Busy boatyards then
punctuate your path as you make your way along Oare Creek, once a
centre for exports of the town’s gunpowder and bricks.
Generations on, freshly-caught fish still feature on the menus
at some of the local pubs in the village of Oare, where fisherman
sell their local catch at
weekends.
If a piece of treasure is removed from the cache, please
replace with something of equal or greater value.
Optional activity: Take a photo of the finder
of the cache wearing the Faversham Rewards badge
(please do not remove this from the cache) and publish to the
www.gecoaching.com website
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