Around Dungeness
From the car park, walk around the old lighthouse and the roundel of cottages to pick up the path leading along the perimeter of the power station. Head towards the grey-roofed Old Coastguard Cottages, which are surrounded by what looks like a circular earthwork or rampart nearby. The right of way leads around the base of this mound to the left of the houses; don't go through the cottage gardens, which are private.
As you emerge on the far side of the ‘earthwork’, head half right across the shingle, where a faint causeway track leads through a gap in a line of posts ahead (a dismantled railway). Continue towards a gap into bushes ahead.
Follow the slightly raised path ahead through the undergrowth and emerge on the shingle banks again. To your right is a scattering of shoreline shacks; make for a cluster of more substantial-looking buildings ahead of you.
When you pass the Coastguard Cottages on your left and reach a road by a telegraph pole, turn right towards The Pilot Inn, then right again along the access road leading back towards the lighthouses. You can, if you wish, take various boardwalk tracks across the shingle to have a closer look at the seafront. You will pass the lifeboat station on your left and Derek Jarman’s brightly painted Prospect Cottage further down on your right.
Have a glance at the new lighthouse before returning to your starting point beyond the Britannia Inn.
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