Is This The Most Dangerous Path In Britain?
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Located in Essex, in southeast England, The Broomway is said to be Britain's most deadly path, killing more than 100 people at over 600 years old. The Broomway is exceptionally dangerous. Known locally as the Black Grounds
The Broomway is surrounded on both sides by quicksand and deep, sucking mud. it's in the middle of a Ministry of Defence firing range and the only way to walk to Foulness Island
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Hello Tim , have you been to thornwick bay haven ? Just wondering what's it like and what's the best beach and place to go near there .
As a man who routinely dances with death by consuming food at Brittania Hotel establishments I didn't expect you to be intimidated by this in the slightest.
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Funny!! :D
If you think that's dangerous, try the path from Leigh Beck to Canvey Point; regularly covered by water at high tide, being progressively washed away and with marshes full of deadly quicksand on both sides! It's like the setting for The Woman In Black!
Yes I know imagine if it was misty
If you think that's dangerous try walking the Schiaparelli ridge. Not easy to get to but once there it's life changing.
Mate, (Benfleet lad here) thanks for the heads up, is that stretch from Leigh Beck to Canvey really that dangerous? Me and mates have been across there either on foot or on our KTMs and never knew this area had quicksand.
That's true, I used to live on Canvey 😏
I'm from Canvey island so with you on that one. Ironically I've now moved to Wakering a year ago and it's just as bad as the island with high tires.
Doubt that. You haven’t walked around my area in London at night.
You must live near me in sarf london mate 😀
@@Bigshag420 only around the football ground area and some local chip shops. I actually quite liked the area but not the 'Dreadful' custom of having gravy poured onto my chips 🤣🤣🤣 i hate the way it goes cold and it's almost congealed before it reaches the surface of the chips.........utter filth 🤣
Stay lucky mate 👍
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I love this channel. There's just something pleasant about being shown around a new place by a nice fellow like yourself.
very kind of you to say thanks dan
My dad used to train there . It is an odd place to go I’ll admit. We used to play up near the top go the beach. It still gives me creeps now
yes its something about it
Greetings from across the pond, Tim (& Gabby)!!!
I recently, normally, have been literally inhaling your entire travels, via my bedroom large screen in America.
Was on vacation in Point Pleasant Beach NJ for 6th time this season, had sudden pain, ambulance ride to big nearby NJ hospital, needed 9 hours emergency abdominal surgery, month in the hospital, finally home to Staten Island on Thanksgiving weekend, and Slowly recovering!
Odd thing, with all the pain, discomfort, secondary related health issues...YOUR UA-cam shows have kept me distracted from all the negative & concurrently feeling like I am out and about, exploring the world (from best Fish & Chips to deep cave hotels & Lapland Santa's Village) and well, it has kept me going Tim!!!
Just randomly found this on my phone (had seen dangerous path video already on TV, and it was Great & historically Intresting) but just wanted to leave above comment to you!
Great Holidays to you, Gabby, (Cutest)Thumbs & whole family, stay well & safe!
Congrats Tim on the 100k well deserved cheers to you and Gaby.
thanks Tracy
I had a guided mud vehicle tour of the Broomway around 10 years ago. Starting off a walk at low tide is possibly NOT a good idea because the Broomway at that time has been clear of water for many hours and the tide will now be starting to turn. You need to start when the walk becomes just free of water. However, as suggested its not something to be undertaken without a guide and some understanding of how the tides work in the area. You could be standing in ankle deep water half a mile from the shore but the water is already many feet deep very close to shore.
Best time to start is during very low tides and as soon as the path ahead is going to be clear with the tide still going out. Also pick a day with light winds and high pressure which makes the tide even lower. But without the Withies marking the way it is dangerous.
Looks very dangerous Tim. Never ever mess with the sea and tides as they are lethal kids. Great video!
When they are testing you would definitely know about it! 3 miles away and the windows shake.There is a guide for the broomway but not recommended if you dont know it.
yikes
You should go to Lindisfarne. All the way up north bordering Scotland. My parents showed me it when we're coming back home from a trip in Scotland.
Very eerie when the tides out. Also a historic island out there too
thanks for the tip Jack
Agree, its a awesome journey. Been a couple times too.
Agreed Lindisfarne is so lovely, great childhood memories of there , playing in the ruins and then trying mead for the first time!
@@pixie706 But there’s literally large signs everywhere showing you the times!! 🤣
@@pixie706 I think some people look and think “it’s not far” I mean it’s not, but the tide doesn’t care about that!
This is very interesting, this path is near my house in Southend on sea. Edit: Congrats on 100k u really deserve it tim!😍😍
:-)
I lived in Cranham and did the same walk. It used to be the experimental test station for rockets and rocket proppelled artillery during WWII . Good for you showing this. I believe the railway still goes to the RE base and you have the (ex) Royal Green Base at Shoeburyness
I walked it a few years ago with a guide called Brian Dawson who used to do tours over the Broomway and organised a coach for the return journey. Sadly he stopped doing it, I'm not sure why as his website suddenly vanished without a comment.
The path wasn't marked with broom handles it was marked by branches of the plant called broom, hence the name.
The rail tracks you crossed used to be used to store withdrawn trains. I can remember a lot of the old "Mk 1" trains when they were withdrawn from South West Trains, Connex etc in the early 2000s. I think old tube trains also. This is because they were pretty secure being within the MOD property.
It used to be possible to ring the landlord of the pub and he could arrange for you to drive there, but that option has gone since the pub closed down. The church is also closed.
I have some photos of the walk I can post a link to if interested (didn't want to spam your comments with it first).
thanks for that Jonathan yes would be interesting to see
Broom is a bush.... It has very thin, springy branches which are ideal for bunching together, tying up, and making a implement for sweeping floors. It would be OK for marking a path - if that path were on dry land. I am not saying you couldn't use it, but the markers would be short and would have to be bunches tied together - with all the problems that entails.
As far as I know - having worked on the island, and been told tales about it - It was wooden branches of the type that may be used for a broomstick handle
I did the ring the landlord and drive to the pub a few times. I was booked in and out of the security post shown in the video and warned not to deviate from the road to the pub. Unfortunately they only did Greene King - which are not my favourite beers. When the third London airport was proposed for Maplin sands I had a summer job detecting ordinance that had been fired into that area in the past 200 years. In army trucks we went a lot further out than the Broomway
The TV show The Third Day starring Jude Law uses a very similar tidal system as a very prominent plot device. It's not bad. Worth a watch, but not groundbreaking.
thanks for the tip
those tracks join up to the tracks at Shoeburyness seafront carpark. part of the wartime munitions storage
at least your not visiting lakeside park at Donna nook in Lincolnshire, lakeside is a holiday park right next door to Donna nook bombing range, I went there when I was a youth and you could hear the bombs being tested there
100k ! Well done Tim, thoroughly deserved for top quality YT content ! May the algorithms forever be in your favour
lol lets hope as long as u hit thumbs up and watch :-)
What a desolate location... real sense of isolation too.
yes I was hoping for that to come across in the video
As I'm watching I'm actually willing you not walk any further, when you stepped off the path at the end! Still, it looks a lovely, peaceful walk, bullets not withstanding! Congrats on reaching 100k, Tim - you deserve it!
lol thanks Nellie
Nah, I wanted him to keep going! 😅
Many titles are clickbait but that path was even scarier than I expected.
What a great , interesting , scary place.
lol thanks for watching Ian
The army ranges in Lulworth, Dorset are also a great walk to go on. Also to visit the abandoned village of Tyneham.
Great comment, another place I've not heard of and enjoyed reading about!
I wouldn't say Tyneham was abandoned, that suggests the residents left voluntarily. They were forced to leave and wanted to return.
Please treat the church and houses with care; we have given up our homes where many of us lived for generations to help win the war to keep men free. We shall return one day and thank you for treating the village kindly
I worked on Foulness Island (at ETC for Qinetiq) for about 2 years. A lovely, quiet place (when they weren't disposing of out-of-date munitions). I sometimes wondered about walking the broomway, but heard too many bad stories about it. It takes a surprisingly long time to walk - considering the bridge is about 100m - and you start off by walking almost 1 km out to sea, before turning and heading parallel to the shore. the total is over 5km
I know crazy
Yep scares my dog so much I have to take her to work
Wow, its 5 km? No way could anyone but the very fittest walkers manage that distance in less than a few hours. Really puts it into perspective how dangerous it is
Thanks Tim, that looked like a beautiful spot when you crested the lane and looked out. I can imagine the tidal flow being deceptive. Surely the sign “Keep on the road” is temptation just to stray off it. Thanks for sharing Tim, I liked that one.
thanks Roger
The Broomway is very dangerous but I don't know if it's the most dangerous path in England as there's byways across Morecambe Bay too.I'd say that the Morecambe Bay one's are more dangerous for the simple reason they are easier to access so more people will use them and drown.
There used to be regular organised walks across Morecambe Bay, but I don't know if they are still done. You don't attempt it unless you have a thorough and up to date knowledge of the shifting sands.
Fun fact - "Shoeburyness" is also the name given for that weird uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat that's still warm from someone else sitting on it beforehand.
(At least according to The Meaning of Liff).
What a cracking place! Especially on a day like that.
I don't blame you for going no further!! I have seen it done by Tom Scott another you tuber with a mountain guide. Sounds unlikely but the guide is qualified to escort people across I think.
yes agree I did get in touch with a guide but they where booked up till November
Fascinating. Reminds me of Hilbre Island in Merseyside, which you get to by walking across the sand at low tide.
I live the other side of the sea from this place, in Kent, and we can hear the guns here despite that this is over 15 miles away from my town.
Live in Weston super mare. Second quickest tide in the world. Many a tourist gets stuck in the mud or their car… we point and laugh as they don’t pay attention to anything.
I was lucky enough to walk the Broomway a couple of years ago. Unique experience!
its like being on another planet
Wish I could send you my pictures. There’s so much weird MoD stuff along the shore too - almost a bit sci-fi with the vast land/seascape. Quatermass, even.
@@Laika5436 not at all. Just wouldn’t know where to send them!
I live in Leigh-on-Sea....I've walked these paths Many times .....Great place ❤️
Very dangerous place tim I'm glad they wasn't shooting or testing in the MOD and that a long walk 3 hours wow thanks 4 sharing
yes I was glad lol
Congrats Tim on 100.000 subs. Well deserved👏🏻🎉 Lovely walk around . Beautiful weather you had for your walk.
thanks Melissa
The tower is called a Sanger, armed guards would be posted inside
Bit scary id not go further either ! Though love to watch it come in🫣
Great tour there young Tim. I lived in that area in army married quarters in the 50's. Dad was in the British Army 1940-64. I have relatives around Southend, if I go over again from OZ, where I have been since 1966, I might try that walk. Well done. I like your vlogs.👍
The brooms were brushes of “broom” wood. Hence why they call it a broom handle.
Hi Tim that was different so glad you did not go any further I have not heard of that place so weird how there was nobody about though
So strange, I was talking to my mum and aunt about Wakering Stairs as they grew up in Wakering.
We live just a few miles away in Rayleigh now.
My mum said they used to play at Wakering Stairs as kids, but would never walk the broom way. I’ve heard stories of their cousins being bought home by MOD police as they used to venture onto the wrong side of the fence!
Have you ever walked out to Mulberry Harbour in the estuary at low tide, we do it yearly as a family, it’s a great walk
thanks for the tip Joanne
Somehow I'd never heard of this place before, really interesting video and history. In that sunshine it looks inviting, you can see how it could easily catch a person out.
yep
Yeah Morecombe bay not for from me is sort of the same with the quick sand ext but people still risk it and walk across their as always love the video Tim
yes been there and scary getting caught out
not model train…ammunition trains and/transport for soldiers between ranges, HQ, and barracks. the towers are spotting towers used for the firing ranges but if they’re old enough then they’re likely originally built for coastal and air defense
Reminds me of the RAF Wainfleet Bombing range on the Wash you used to be able to park up behind the sea defences and watch the planes fly in and do their stuff. I think it is now closed.
The path was marked with long sticks of Broom or maybe Willow to bend and stay put despite waves and current. We call them Withies here on the Essex coast. They are used to mark the channels in our muddy creeks too.
The Broom Way would be much safer if still marked this way. 👍🏻
This is really interesting channel well done Tim
Thanks Dan
Lovely sunny day for a lovely walk. 🙂
Thanks a lot for very interesting walk. Amazing place 😊
May i suggest a video on the Bolton Strid. Equally as beautiful and equally as deadly.
That is genuinely interesting. Knew nothing about that. Such a strange mixture of scary yet beautiful
agree Dave
Love Tim and Gaby. Beacons of happiness.
lol thanks Daniel
The watch tower was built in WWII as the beach is really sandy and the tide goes out a long way ideal.for testing close range rockets
That actually frightens the life out of me.
Has shades of Great Expectations about it (the David Lean version)
We’ve got Sully island near me, and the amount of rescue efforts that have to be done with people getting stranded by the tide is unreal
Thanks Tim great video and interesting look forward to the next Yvonne 😊
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Thank you Tim. What a nice calming video.
You are very welcome
That sound like it a haunted area for where this going. Like the haunted island i explored on my game where it was full of fog. And also the path you walkthrough, looks like some kinda military base.
it is lol
I live in Wakering. The train tracks are an extension of the C2C line that terminates in Shoebury. They do sometimes use it to bring things onto the Mod if can't be done by road. Also you could have driven and parked by the tower in your video. It's allowed as I walk my dog there. Once a month also, you can go onto the rest of Foulness island (to the left of where you came in by the roundabout) one Sunday every month. Just go online and register and you can go the churchyard etc. Well worth a look.
Interesting. Back in the 1970s there was a long-standing proposal to build London's main airport at Maplin Sands to replace Heathrow. Had that happened you would have been standing on or next to a runway and it wouldn't have been so peaceful.
What a great little eye opener to a very interesting piece of our history. I always thought the most dangerous path to walk in the UK is here in London 😉! Go down any path near " Cold Harbour Lane " in Brixton late at night & your find the Bermuda Triangle is not the only place people disappear😳...
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Just caught up with this, ooh Tim glad you didn't go any further ,good to see these unusual places never heard of this. Congrats on your 100K well done keep the vlogs coming,thanks 👏 👍
thanks hazel
Mad video. Having to walk between the MOD parts. "Gotta walk back now" ha ha
lol you are the only one so far to reference that
There is something very similar in Malden in Essex next to the Osea Road Caravan park although I not sure if it’s still called that. You had a road just the same that went over to the next island. We use to ride a cross and make it back before the tide came back in. Very dangerous thinking about it now but as a kids it was just a fun thing to do
Many of the firing trials conducted by the MOD over the past couple of hundred years in that whole area involved firing from the shore into the mud flats of Maplin sands hence that watch tower looking out to sea and restricted public access to Wakering Stairs when red flags are flying.
Great video! Wouldn’t want to get stuck out there!
Tim, your video just turned up on "ItsJps" channel! He's a lovely lad, an American guy who loves Britain. You probably know, but as I'm from Southend it was great to see him watching your video!
Very interesting video Tim I had no idea about this walk way and the firing rang I lived near Southend many years ago. Will look at your Southend video was their a few weeks ago.
wow and you didn't know
gibralter point near skegness , is a dangerous walk , we once nearly got caught out , the tide comes in behind you as the gulleys fill up !
Same happens at the Broomway and even many places along the Southend seafront. Southend lifeboat station has a hovercraft because of the local conditions - a mix of deep water close to shore and shallow water further out on the sandbanks.
You are a brave man Tim
Really enjoyed this, thanks for taking us along 👍
Glad you enjoyed it Jane!
This is interesting
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Fun fact- The most dangerous path is actually the very path that Boris Johnson walks on… so it’s actually always changing depending on where he is walking.
Try walking down Breck Rd in Liverpool, its 2.5 miles of Hell and dont think of jumping on the 14C bus to escape, 'out of the frying pan into the fire'.
It would be nice if you can come back and have a guided tour across the path.
Totally agree, love Tim's channel and although I completely understand why he didn't make the walk to the island , it's a bit of a disappointment. Great video as far as it went, but definitely worth a return visit. I'd never heard of this path, or the island, (I live miles away in South Devon) but this video has piqued my curiosity. Come On Tim! 😁
yes but tbh you dont see much lol
thanks Adrian, yes to walk it feels like walking in the middle of nowhere I guess it wouldn't make much of a video as nothing to see lol
It’d be nice to see wildlife in the area; is there anything of note?
@@WalkWithMeTim There is a ship wreck out there.
Hi Tim Wow never heard of this place scary . Huge🎉🎉🎉 CONGRATULATIONS 🎉🎉to you reaching 100k so deserved. Looking forward to following you in the future. Thankyou for sharing with us love to you as always Tracey 💕
Congrats Tim on the 100k well deserved
thanks Paul
Very interesting, thanks Tim and very sensible of you not to attempt to walk the full length of the path, after all, the channel is called "walk with me Tim ' not drown with me Tim!
Congratulations on the 100k subs, you throughly deserve them.
thank you .. yes trying to be super sensible
Absolutely luv your channel enjoy seeing new places thank you Tim x
My pleasure
wow that is a really dmaged road i wonder what the railway track leads to or weather its abaondoned looks like its been abandoned for years with the overgrown plants etc
Railway runs from QinetiQ Shoeburyness to QinetiQ Haven Point and is military only....and rarely used.
@@stevelomas4119 nice thanks Steve
Tide also in some Places comes up underneath not just rolling in from shore line
So, at 2:00 the meaning of “photography is prohibited” must have changed since I moved to Canada in 2013! Nice one Tim - stick it to the man!
I spoke with the guard he said a public right of way so I'm able to film myself
@@WalkWithMeTim I figured as much - tongue in cheek comment.
A very interesting walk thanks for sharing this great video.
thanks Tom
Great vid, Tim! Interesting and informative 👍
thanks the bard
Hello Tim,that is quite a walk,it looks very interesting to see.but I can see why in a way you can't go any further.
Imagine if the gate was down on the way back.
Is sinking sand the same as what we call quicksand in the US, or something different?
Congrats on 100k subs , I knew you’d smash it 👍🏼
thank you :-)
An interesting walk. Like it. something out of the ordinary. A very big thunbs up to you.
thanks Scully
Great video Tim, interesting about the Broomway! If you go onto Foulness Island sometime you will see various gates with Radioactive warning signs from when an area was used for depleted uranium weapons testing (I believe under AWRE at the time!). You were walking just down the road from my parents and where I used to live!
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You are right. There is a connection with the Atomic Weapons programme and I often wondered if missiles were strategically placed here during the Cold War years.
Great video never heard of this place would love to c it but don't think I would go any further than u did
Me neither
Yuk!! That green slimy stuff is enough to make you do an about turn!!😨
Félicitation pour les 100 k🥰, vraiment flippant la traversée du terrain militaire 😱
Shoebury range was actually an artillery and rocketry testing site up til the 1970s.
Great video Tim, a very interesting place. I'm hoping to go to the Foulness Island Heritage Centre at the beginning of April.
That whole area looks heavily MOD occupied. Would be a great visit!
You’ve probably done a video on Mersea island but if you haven’t that’s a great place and your governed by the tide for your visit there loads to do and see👍
Wow I actually walk there with my dog every day and live in Wakering. Cool to see a video so close to where I live.
Is the path open everyday as i would like to go there with my camera?
@@kevinmoore49 Open all day weekends. On weekdays they open usually past 4pm. Before the turning on the first part of New Road where a chain link fence is there's a flagpole. If the red flag is up then its closed, if its down then it's open.
@@Homosamuel Thanks very much for the info i appreciate it
Great vid, thanks for sharing !! 😊👍
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4:58 "Not that it's a tourist location" Well it is now.
If you haven't already I'd recommend the Park Dean Resort at Saltfleet in Lincolnshire just up from Mablethorpe. Its a classic. The park is right next to the beach but you can't go on it COS ITS A MINEFIELD. Lol. Cracking video this one. Almost into auditing territory
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Drove my landrover down that 25 years ago .
wow