Along the 160 mile Saxon Shore Way is St Margaret’s Bay. A shingle beach nestled at the bottom of Kent's famous White Cliffs coastline.
The Coastguard bar offers visitors an excellent choice of menu and traditional Kentish ales. As well as icy cold jugs of Pimms. Free campervan overnight parking makes the bay an attraction for nomadic explorers.
Stroll up onto the cliff-top and follow the 5 mile St Margaret’s Bay walk to take in glorious views along the coastline.
This idyllic and tranquil part of England bears the scars of Kent's important role in wars through the ages. From Henry II to Winston Churchill, there are signs dotted across the landscape. Including perched atop the cliff walk, facing out to Europe, a humble, and somewhat unassuming WWI and WWII RAF memorial to the 'Few'.
Eventually, the clifftop path will bring you to South Foreland Lighthouse, where an old fashioned traditional English cream tea can be had, in proper china teacups, poured from a real tea pot.
Photos taken;
August 2022 iPhone 13
The Coastguard on the Bay.
Coast Guard bar and restaurant
WW2 Pillbox defense.
Traditional Kentish ales on tap.
Sun drenched sea defenses
A bench for basking.
Quintessentially the drink of British summer time
Pimming with the timmings
Pebbles and parallels
"Never, before, in the field of human conflict, has so much been owed by so many, to so few" RAF Memorial
Vice Admiral Bertram Ramsey, architect of Operation Dynamo, the BEF evacuation from Dunkirk
Cliff top walk
South Forland Lighthouse
Proper tea in proper tea cups
Toward the cliffs
Dusk
St Margaret's at dusk
The garden county.
Approaching Dover Castle from St. Margaret's
St. Margaret's pebbles.
Cumulus nimbus over the Kentish clifftops
With the going down of the sun, and in the morning. We shall remember them. Lest we forget.
