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Long Man: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.
Andy
Long Man
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A cache placed along a footpath at Bedlams Bottom
You're looking for a camouflaged 4" (10cm) sample-tube located on a very nice walk at Bedlams Bottom which is the name of a creek situated on the western side of the Chetney Marshes peninsula, found by following the Saxon Shore Way footpath down from Raspberry Hill.
The views from here, especially at sunset, are stunning, stretching out across the estuary and the adjacent marshes, it also provides excellent bird watching opportunities.
Along the creek are the barely recognisable remains of a number of barges stuck fast in the thick black treacle mudflats. These were used in the 1952 film The Long Memory starring John Mills, as a wrongly convicted criminal living rough on a beached barge on the north Kent marshes, following his release from prison.
About a mile north of Bedlams Bottom is Chetney Hill, which at only eight metres high is barely noticeable in the surrounding landscape. In 1801 work began here on England’s only permanent lazaret, or quarantine station. Unfortunately, during its construction it became apparent that the soft marshland couldn’t support the building’s foundations and work ceased. According to P Froggatt in 1964, “all that remained were the foundations and eight graves of strangers”.
If you venture further on to Chetney Marshes, note that it is privately owned so please remain on the Saxon Shore Way footpath.
Parking is a little limited, but there are many laybys at the bottom of the hill to the West by the waters edge, but take care trekking back up the hill on the road to the start of the footpath as it’s narrow and overgrown and surprisingly busy.
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