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Open Country: Romney Marsh

Romney Marsh

05/12/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, Romney Marsh

Tales of smuggling, a nuclear power station and medieval churches on Romney Marsh.

Tales of smuggling, 'lookers huts', a nuclear power station and medieval churches all unfold as Helen Mark explores Romney Marsh in Kent.

Tales of smuggling and 'lookers huts' unfold as Helen Mark explores Romney Marsh in Kent. Historically, this great coastal marshland was the result of reclamation of land from the sea, and is the site of an on-going battle to drain it and keep the sea from taking it back. Throughout the centuries life on the Marsh had been difficult, but by the 19th century the economy and the landscape was dominated by sheep; the Romney Marsh sheep. Today, alongside the sheep the area boasts a Nuclear power station at Dungeness, sitting in stark contrast to the shingle landscape of the National Nature Reserve it neighbours. This, along with the 14 medieval churches which dot the landscape, is what gives Romney Marsh it's unique character.

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