o say that Romney and Dungeness on the Kent coast are uninhabited and forgotten would be to misunderstand them completely. They have been inhabited, it is believed, as far back as 2000 BC. It’s a story that begins with the great shingle banks at Dungeness and a touch of longshore drift creating lagoons and lakes, a perfect wetland for settlers and farmers. The Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, Romans and Normans took turns to invade the marsh and built churches and castles, and used the land to make salt and rear sheep. That’s it in a nutshell. If you add in the Great Storm of 1287, the Black Death and some wool
