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From Military Graveyard on Sandy Road, at edge of Shorncliffe Camp, Sandgate.
©Oast House Archive
Dist:0.2km<br/>This footpath leads from Ladies Avenue to Lucy's Avenue. The borders are maintained by Hythe Town Council. The yellow flowering plant on the right is an Eremurus (Foxtail lily). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eremurus for more details.
©David Anstiss
Dist:0.2km<br/>The building to the right is Waitrose. The view is looking towards Prospect Road and Stade Street.
©Sebastian Ballard
Dist:0.2km<br/>Statue of soldiers of the Royal Staff Corps who supervised the construction of the Royal Military Canal, Hythe.
©Kevin Woolterton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Close to the Waitrose car park, heading towards Twiss Road
©Sebastian Ballard
Dist:0.2km<br/>Navvies or navigators were the workmen who travelled the country to build the Royal Military Canal at the start of the 19th century. At its height, 700 navvies were employed together with the soldiers of the Royal Staffordshire Corps.
©pam fray
Dist:0.2km<br/>The canal was built to defend England when Napoleon started to mass an army of some 130,000 troops and 2,000 boats on the French coast near Boulogne. It was started on 30 October 1804 but only finished in April 1809, well after Napoleon’s plans for invasion had suffered a major setback following his navy’s defeat at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The journalist William Cobbett, who toured the country on his Rural Rides during the 1820s, was typical of the critics of the canal: ‘Here is a canal made for the length of thirty miles to keep out the French; for those armies who had so often crossed the Rhine and the Danube were to be kept back by a canal thirty feet wide at most!’ The view in the photo is along the north bank parapet which was built up from the excavated soil.
©Sebastian Ballard
Dist:0.2km<br/>On South Road beside a large recreational ground. For Tennis, Bowls and Petanque.
©David Anstiss
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©Sebastian Ballard
Dist:0.2km<br/>Off Prospect Road - A259.
©Sebastian Ballard
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©Sebastian Ballard
Dist:0.2km<br/>With the familiar green signage.
©Sebastian Ballard
Dist:0.2km<br/>Taken facing south west looking towards Lady's bridge.
©Andy Hatton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Ladies' Walk Bridge is in the background.
©pam fray
Dist:0.2km<br/>One of the last short row of Beach huts left. In the 1950's these were buzzing with families every warm weekend in the summer...now they are a sad remnant.
©Iain Crump

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