Thames Estuary – Benfleet, Leigh and Canvey. I’ve photographed the Thames east of London on many events and located a lot of curiosity, however I’ve comparatively seldom ventured proper out to the true Thames Estaury, although there isn’t any actual consensus the place that begins because the Wikipedia entry discuses. For some functions it consists of nearly all the river in London, the tidal Thames which begins at Teddington, and extends all the way in which east, at the least to the Isle of Grain.
In my very own personal working definition I consider the estuary as that means the river to the east of Better London, the shores of Essex and Kent, maybe so far as Southend to the north and Grain on the south. However by any definition this present day of biking out from Benfleet in Essex was undoubtedly across the estuary.
Again in Could 2023 I revealed right here a chunk right here on the exhibition Estuary held ten years earlier to rejoice the tenth anniversary of the Museum of London Docklands in 2013 once I was delighted the present included ten of my panoramas together with work by eleven artists, a few of them slightly well-known. However not one of the photos within the Museum assortment have been taken on this trip, the place I made just a few panoramas, none of that are but on-line.
On Saturday 15 October 2005 I took my Brompton on the practice to London, then on the tube to West Ham the place I modified to a practice to Benfleet station in South Benfleet. The highway leads down from right here in direction of Canvey Island, however a monitor leads off to the east simply earlier than the bridge working alongside Benfleet Creek. The general public footpath I might cycle alongside leads all the way in which beside the Creek after which between Hadleigh Marshes and Two Tree Island and on to a bridge over the railway near Leigh-on-Sea Station.
From there I needed to cycle alongside the highway, slightly much less nice as there was various visitors and even in October fairly a couple of individuals who had come to benefit from the seaside. Leigh has pubs, tea rooms, fishing boats and extra, however I’d quickly had sufficient and circled to trip again.
This time I took the highway and bridge throughout to Two Tree Island. There’s a crossing to the island you possibly can take at low water however I didn’t take my bike throughout though I noticed others doing so. There are slightly greater than two bushes, however just one highway, although with a number of automobile parks and it ends at a jetty the place I might look throughout Hadleigh Ray to Canvey Island however go no additional.
I circled, cycled again over the bridge and alongside the footpath again to the bridge to Canvey Island which I then spent a while exploring and photographing. I feel I had final been right here in 1982 did recognise among the locations I’d photographed again then, but additionally discovered fairly much more to {photograph}. I don’t assume any of these earlier photographs are on-line as by the point I scanned them the photographs had deteriorated badly.
Too quickly it was time to get again on my Brompton once more and trip again to Benfleet for the practice again to London.
See many extra photos from my trip on My London Diary.
Tags: Benfleet, Benfleet Creek, bike trip, Brompton, Canvey Island, creek, estuary, Hadleigh Marshes, Hadleigh Ray, Leigh-on-Sea, peter Marshall, river, River Thames, Thames, Thames Estuary, Two Tree Island
You’ll be able to depart a response, or trackback from your individual web site.
