The shingle crest looking towards Dungeness showing the actual crest is as narrow as 3 metres in places. The original defence plan (2002) was a shingle depth (seaward) of 10 metres with an emergency shingle feed when and if the shingle dropped to 5metres. The hope was that the shingle would “draw down” and re-profile [...]

Despite the recent stormy weather we yet again have managed to escape the worst scenario. But if the tides over the last few days would have been higher it could have been a different picture for us all on the Romney Marsh!

And not  even the newly deposited  shingle bank was  safe from the elements. It [...]