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On the edge of Romney Marsh, this village, with its broad street, was once a flourishing seaport and shipbuilding centre; it was captured by the Danes with a fleet of 250 ships in the 9th century.

There was also a proposal to build a docks development on the marshes to the east of Keyhaven.

The church of St Mary the Virgin, standing on its mound on the edge of Romney Marsh and viewed here from the south-west, dates from the 13th and 15th centuries.

A great medieval port and a walled town, it declined as the sea retreated; by Victorian times it was mainly a prosperous market town for the surrounding area and the Walland Marshes.

In 1940 both river and marshes froze, so it was possible to walk the whole way to Acle.

All Saints' Church stands solidly against the east wind which blows across the marshes.

The route ran through this area of marsh and woodland known as the Heronry.

The marshes are home to large populations of birds that include wild fowl, little terns, and black-headed gulls.

Here the Burn winds its way through lavender-covered salt marshes to the sea; here the sand dunes stretch away to Holkham in the east and Scolt Head island to the west.

Situated at the southernmost end of the Isle of Thanet, the bay is bounded by cliffs on the north, and by marshes to the south.

Amidst the Cowholm marshes are the scanty ruins of St Benet's Abbey, founded by Canute.

North of Wainfleet, on the Skegness to Lincoln road, Burgh le Marsh is a market town whose charter was granted in 1401.

Our photograph was taken from Giant Axe Field; the area behind the photographer, known as Marsh, had at the time been developed as a linoleum and oilskin manufacturing plant.

The town grew up at the gates of the abbey on a low island amid the surrounding marshes, receiving its charter in 1142.

The marshes were a popular haunt of wildfowlers seeking tasty birds and unusual specimens for the taxidermist.

This type of elegant windmill came into its own during the spring and autumn when the marshes were often full of flood water; during this time it was literally 'all hands to the pump' to ensure the safety

Marsh's stores and Ferring Motors' garage are on the opposite side of the road.

Jabez Goode was an interesting man who lived in Burgh le Marsh in Victorian times.

Our first rural tour heads eastwards, skirting to the north of the Pevensey Levels, those great marshes largely drained during the Middle Ages, and following the road that heads for Ninfield

The church, known locally as 'the cathedral of the marshes', with its 128ft nave and 83ft tower, presents an imposing landmark.

This is a detail of the chalet zone which sprang up behind the 1897-built Esplanade (right), between the waterworks and the Salt House on Pitfield Marsh (left).

A large village, equidistant from Moreton in Marsh and Chipping Campden but not distant enough to develop into a market town itself, Blockley harnessed the water power of its deeply cleft valley

Encroaching sands and developing salt marsh put paid to both the shipping and sun-worshipping trades, and today Parkgate serves as a pleasant commuter town.

Will Marsh and his Merrie Men performed in the wooden theatre on the left, near the bathing machines, whilst the fair ground was also near the high water mark with a helter-skelter, roundabouts, a rifle