![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As he notes, even the Ordnance Survey map registers the "gothic" atmosphere of the path: "WARNING," it reads. The Broomway, which can only be crossed when the tide is out, is the deadliest path in Britain Edwardian newspapers, relishing its rapacious reputation – 66 of its dead lie in Foulness churchyard – rechristened it "the Doomway". But then I read his book, The Old Ways, and anxiety rolls in, like Essex mist. I'm thrilled at the idea of heading out with Macfarlane I feel like a marathon runner who's been invited to train with Paula Radcliffe. This is the Broomway, a path that is said to date from Roman times, and when Robert Macfarlane agrees to go walking with me, it's his first idea. A few hundred yards on, it veers north, heading out across Maplin Sands until, three miles later, it turns back in the direction whence it came, finally making landfall at Fisherman's Head, on the edge of Foulness Island.Ĭan this carefully traced line be for real? Certainly. E xamine a large-scale map of the Essex coastline between the river Crouch and the river Thames, and you'll see a footpath which departs the land at a place called Wakering Stairs and heads east, straight into – or so it appears – the North Sea. ![]()
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