On the second leg of this artful odyssey, people come together to walk and exchange stories about this fascinating – and disappearing – coastline
• Read part one of the author’s Lowestoft to Tilbury walk
At Walton on the Essex coast a group of ragged people with empty, staring eyes are standing just above the tide line, their feet tangled in seaweed. They have come ashore on the tip of the Naze peninsula, a low finger of land where, in 1720, a stone tower was built to warn mariners. They hold their tattered cloaks around themselves and seem to be waiting. Are they ghostly survivors of yet another village swallowed by the rising sea? Won’t anyone help them? Continue reading...
