Property News · January 3, 2014

Let's move to Lydd and New Romney


‘An odd air, and odd histories, and the sea ever present as a whiff on the breeze and a tall tale of smugglers in the pub at night’What’s going for it? Dungeness might end up a bit Dalston-on-Sea if it’s not too careful, a sort of Hamptons for hipsters who like the hum of a nuclear power station over their granola. But you don’t have to wander too far off the beaten track for the less fashionable, more affordable character of Kent’s Denge peninsula to reassert itself. Lydd and New Romney are two peas in a pod, small historic towns peeping above the sea amid the shingle, paddocks and power lines. Super churches. An odd air, and odd histories, plucked from tales of garrison towns, intelligence services and peculiar goings-on befitting their relative remoteness. The sea, though a stiff walk away, is ever present as a whiff on the breeze and a tall tale of smugglers in the pub at night. New Romney still has boat hooks on the church from a time when the sea lapped here, before the Great Storm of 1287, when so much silt was dumped on the town that today you have to descend into its buildings. Both towns look like locations for one of those MR James ghost stories the BBC usually shows around now.The case against Bleak. I like bleak; you may not. Wind whistles off the sea. Not much happens. Both could do with a dash of new blood. Lydd airport’s expansion is on the cards. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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