A Winter Walk at Faversham

Mixed pictures of walks undertaken in 27th January 2008 & again on 4th January 2009

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Continue walking along Faversham Creek bank

Pass through a final 'kissing gate' towards the cluster of buildings in the near distance

These comprise the Public House 'The Shipwrights Arms'& Boatyard at the junction of Faversham & Oare Creeks

Colchester Registered Oyster Yawl CK48 Oare Creek emerges from left into Faversham Creek

Walk past the 'Shipwrights Arms' only in recent years connected to the National Grid

F52 Faversham registered Cardium now decommissioned & replaced

Seaward view to wrecks & moorings into the Swale with Isle-of-Sheppey beyond

Follow path around the 'Shipwrights Arms' cross over the track

Walk past the Boatyard

Looking back along the track

Walk ahead with moorings & Oare Creek on your right

The Tug 'Meeching'

View back towards the Boatyard

'Meeching' is undergoing extensive refurbishment

The tide window at Oare & Faversham is around 2 hours

Most of the paintwork on 'Meeching' being completed

Gentle warm Winter colours

Slipway holding loop

Continue walking along the Saxon Shore Way, the well worn path winds behind the moorings

Continue ahead onto a tarmac road behind a wooden round rusted metal roofed boat house, this shot looking back at the metal roofed building

Continue on road, note Oare Church on the opposite bank

You are now approaching the head of Oare Creek

With the old gravel lakes on your left with the old mill in the background

The gravel lakes drain into the Creek

Creek head is at the main Faversham/Oare road

Turn left & walk past the factory units, unless you fancy a pint back at the 'Mariners Arms' in Oare Village, pass Mill Cottage

Continue past 'Reeds Cottage' & 'Lake View House'

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