Mariners Sculpture, St Mary's Island

We've walked this route around St Mary's Island, Chatham a couple of times recently. Once part of the Chatham Royal Navy Dockyard this area is now a residential area and educational campus. Well, three Universities: Kent, Canterbury Christchurch and Greenwich all have campuses here.

The island, peninsula really, was so contaminated that thousands of tons of soil had to be removed and still today residents are not permitted to grow vegetables.

The walk is really rather fine, following the course of the Medway as it makes its way to the sea, passing several historical sites along the way. Flat too, which makes a difference to our previous walks last week in the Lakes. This sculpture depicting the significance of the sea in the history of the area was errected as part of the Millenium celebrations.

We finished off walking through areas of the Medway Towns I'd not been to before which was all rather interesting. Past the Inner Lines, all sorts of military places and eventually back to the car past Fort Amhurst.

A good afternoon out.