Maldon to Salcott
KC3 ECP Leg Number 36
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Overview
Date started:
26th October 2021
Date completed:
28th October 2021
Official miles:
26.5
Miles we actually walked:
30.2
Guest walkers
Ani the dog
We walked 31 miles on this leg along the Blackwater Estuary and in the Essex Salt Marshes. Starting in Promenade Park in Maldon, the route goes back through Maldon, emerging on the other side of the Estuary and then down past the Heybridge Basin, then turning East along the north coast of the Blackwater Estuary. The route heads inland at Tollesbury to round the Tollesbury Fleet and then finishes with a wonderfully remote walk round the Old Hall Marshes towards Salcott.
Day by day
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How we approached this leg
We walked this leg midweek over three days. Unlike our first outing earlier in the month, we walked on the first day after travelling for around 90 minutes from our home town, and we walked on the final day before heading home. Day 3 involved some backtracking as we walked back to Tollesbury Marina from Salcott – we decided to do this because there was no obvious parking in Salcott, and limited bus services (if you walk to the main road it is possible to catch the 92 bus which goes to Tollesbury, but is fairly irregular – in hindsight this might have been better as retracing our steps at the end of 3 long days was a bit dispiriting)
To do this route in two days, one could park in Tollesbury on day 1, take the 95 to Maldon, and then walk the 15 miles back. Day 2 either park in Tollesbury and walk back there from Salcott, or take the bus as above, or find a way to park in Salcott in the morning and bus back to begin the walk in Tollesbury.
Where we stayed
We based ourselves in Maldon for two nights, which is an ancient port on the Blackwater Estuary, famous for sea salt. We were in a self catering one bedroom apartment in the centre of town near the King’s Head Centre across from a pretty church. The real bells which pealed every hour were charming but steadily became less charming every hour during the night. One would probably get used to it given time, but we didn’t sleep much. Much of this leg requires pack lunches, which we bought each morning from the town centre mini-supermarket which was a few steps from our accommodation.
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