Store Category: Waypoints of inspiration
This pathway, over 600 years old, is recorded as early as 1419. It runs for 6 miles along the infamous Maplin Sands, and lays way down beneath the water when the tide is high. From here, I watch the world’s largest container-ships circle like vultures on the water-roundabout above the Black Deep.
Until the end of the 1900’s, Bovril-Boats—filled to the brim with London’s sewage sludge—would unleash here their stinking loads into the depths below.
Unit 3, Tuskite Business Park, Pitsea Hall Ln, Pitsea, Basildon SS16 4UH
Warden’s Point on the Isle of Sheppey (one of the markers of the limits of the Port of London Authority in the Thames Estuary). In the distance can be seen: Red Sands Fort, Shivering Sands Fort, Knock John Fort, The Black Deep, Ships on the Sea-roundabout, awaiting the tide, the London Array deep-sea wind farm, France.