Dungeness: The Shingle Desert and the Miniature Main Line
South East, England
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Dungeness: The Shingle Desert and the Miniature Main Line
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Dungeness is a cuspate foreland of shingle, one of the largest expanses in Europe, often loosely called Britain's only desert, though the Met Office says it isn't one. Fishing boats, black tarred huts, two lighthouses and a nuclear power station stand on it, the warm-water outfall of the power station drew seabirds until the reactors shut down, and Derek Jarman made a garden of flint and driftwood at Prospect Cottage. The 15-inch gauge Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, opened in 1927, runs out to the point.
Required Activities
1
of 4
Ride the 15-inch gauge railway from New Romney out to Dungeness
2
of 4
Walk the shingle past the fishing huts to the old lighthouse
3
of 4
See Derek Jarman's garden at Prospect Cottage from the road
4
of 4
Watch seabirds at the RSPB reserve behind the point
Ride the 15-inch gauge railway from New Romney out to Dungeness
Walk the shingle past the fishing huts to the old lighthouse
See Derek Jarman's garden at Prospect Cottage from the road
Watch seabirds at the RSPB reserve behind the point
Before you go
The miniature railway runs daily in the main season from late March, with a limited service outside it.
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