Romney Marsh
Coordinates: 50°57′51″N 0°55′29″E / 50.96417°N 0.92463°E / 50.96417; 0.92463
Romney Marsh is a sparsely populated wetland area in the counties of Kent and East Sussex in the south-east of England. It covers about 100 square miles (260 km2).
Governance
An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward had a population of 2,358 at the 2011 census.
Quotations
“As Egypt was the gift of the Nile, this level tract ... has by the bounty of the sea been by degrees added to the land, so that I may not without reason call it the Gift of the Sea." (from Britannia by William Camden 1551–1623)
"The world according to the best geographers is divided into Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Romney Marsh" from Ingoldsby Legends, Reverend Richard Harris Barham (Rector of Snargate)
Areas of Romney Marsh
Romney Marsh is flat and low-lying, with parts below sea-level. It consists of several areas:
the Romney Marsh proper, lying north of a line between New Romney and Appledore;
the Walland Marsh, south of that line to approximately the Kent/East Sussex border;