Art and Culture

Craft Gallery at Lydd
Romney Marsh Craft Gallery was opened in 1998 and is situated in Lydd Library. It runs a continuous programme of craft exhibitions by local and international practitioners. Free admission.

Lydd
Tel: 01797 320131
Open: Tues & Thurs: 10.00-1pm & 2-4.00pm; Friday 2.00-6.00pm; Saturday 10.00-1.00pm.

Brenzett Aeronautical Museum
Brenzett Museum is a unique collection of wartime equipment, collected and donated to the Museum since it's formation in 1972.

Ivychurch Road
Brenzett
Tel: 01797 344 747
Open: Sat & Sun 11.00am to 5.30pm
www.kent2do.com/brenzettaeronautical/index.html

Lydd Town Musuem
Small local history museum. Free admission, donations welcome.

Lydd
Tel: 01797 366566
Open: 2.30 p.m. until 5 p.m, every day from July 24th until September 12th
www.lyddtownmuseum.co.uk

Heritage

Royal Military Canal
The Royal Military Canal stretches for 28 miles hugging the old cliff line that borders the Romney Marsh from Hythe in the north east to Cliff End in the south west. It was built as a third line of defence against Napoleon, after the British Royal Navy patrolling the English Channel and the line of 74 Martello Towers built along the south coast.

Fringed Water Lily - Royal Military canal - Kenardington

The churches of Romney Marsh are one of its most distinctive features:

St. Eanswyth
Brenzett
Dedicated to a Saxon princess who died in the 7th century and was the grand daughter of Ethelbert, the first Christain King of Kent.

St. Augustine
Brookland
The 13th century wooden octagonal belfry stands beside the church instead of on top! A host of stories explain how this may have happened. One suggests that the architect, not having a large enough piece of paper for the complete plan of the church, put the belfry on a second piece of paper. The builders followed the plans accordingly.

St Thomas a Becket
Fairfield
One of the most photographed churches on the Marsh. The church is approached by a grass causeway built in 1913, before when parishioners sometimes had to row across to reach the church at times of flood.

Fairfield Church

St. George’s
Ivychurch
One of the longest village churches in Kent.

St. Peter and St. Paul
Newchurch
The tower and porch lean away from the church at an angle of 5 degrees, the result of subsidence caused by the drainage of the surrounding marshland in the 15th century.

St. Nicholas
New Romney
Dedicated to the patron saint of children and sailors. The west doorway is now sunk below ground level, a reminder of the mass of shingle and mud flung inshore by powerful storms.

St. Clement’s
Old Romney
Commemorates St. Clement who was martyred by being thrown into the sea with an anchor tied to his neck.

St. Mary the Virgin
St Mary in the Marsh
Dates back to 1133. Edith Nesbit, author of the Railway Children is buried in the churchyard.

St Dunstan
Snargate
One of the five churches in Kent dedicated to the 10th century monk. A painting of a terracotta ship dating from 1500, discovered during restoration work, is believed to have signified a safe place to hide smuggled goods in years gone by.