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.
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!
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
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!
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
@@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 👍
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.
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).
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
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
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
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.👍
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 👏 👍
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
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 💕
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).
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!
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.
Well done on 100k subscribers! That went fast as the last time I looked it was around 30k! I absolutely love your content, and as you've probably noticed, I like to comment on them too! I look forward to your up and coming videos!
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. 👍🏻
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.
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!
Congrats on the 100k, I've only just found your videos and I'm loving them, you go to so many places that I haven't visited since I was a child which was about 3,000 years ago, or at least it feels like that.
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.
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
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
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.
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
That part of the Essex coast is really odd isn’t it? I’d love to do that walk one day (with a guide!) I checked the railway and it seems to come from a branch just before shoeburyness railway station and runs right through the MOD base - most of it is in good nick apart from that last half mile or so where you crossed. Congratulations on the 100k!
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! 😁
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.
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
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.
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
Nice video Tim, you could have a go at the smugglers path on the east end of Ringstead Bay near Weymouth. I done the first zig down the hill with my partner and saw the zag and chickened out 😂 one mistake and it's a 100'ish meter tumble to the rocks. There's a nice 3d video on UA-cam if you search 'smugglers path ringstead'. I look forward to the video 😁👍
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'.
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.
Also, see the Jack the Ripper Tour 👉ua-cam.com/video/eNn0I5LL0E0/v-deo.html
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
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!
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
Congrats Tim on the 100k well deserved cheers to you and Gaby.
thanks Tracy
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 :-)
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!
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! 😅
Looks very dangerous Tim. Never ever mess with the sea and tides as they are lethal kids. Great video!
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
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.
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
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
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.
Congrats Tim on 100.000 subs. Well deserved👏🏻🎉 Lovely walk around . Beautiful weather you had for your walk.
thanks Melissa
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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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
Fascinating. Reminds me of Hilbre Island in Merseyside, which you get to by walking across the sand at low tide.
This is very interesting, this path is near my house in Southend on sea. Edit: Congrats on 100k u really deserve it tim!😍😍
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What a cracking place! Especially on a day like that.
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 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
those tracks join up to the tracks at Shoeburyness seafront carpark. part of the wartime munitions storage
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.👍
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
Thank you Tim. What a nice calming video.
You are very welcome
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
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 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
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
That is genuinely interesting. Knew nothing about that. Such a strange mixture of scary yet beautiful
agree Dave
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
Many titles are clickbait but that path was even scarier than I expected.
What a great , interesting , scary place.
lol thanks for watching Ian
Really enjoyed this, thanks for taking us along 👍
Glad you enjoyed it Jane!
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
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
Thanks a lot for very interesting walk. Amazing place 😊
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
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 💕
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).
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.
Love Tim and Gaby. Beacons of happiness.
lol thanks Daniel
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
May i suggest a video on the Bolton Strid. Equally as beautiful and equally as deadly.
Well done on 100k subscribers!
That went fast as the last time I looked it was around 30k!
I absolutely love your content, and as you've probably noticed, I like to comment on them too!
I look forward to your up and coming videos!
Thank you so much!!
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. 👍🏻
That actually frightens the life out of me.
Has shades of Great Expectations about it (the David Lean version)
Congrats on reaching 100k. Keep up the good work really enjoying your vlogs. Love to Gaby, thumper and Holly too!
Thanks so much Sue
This is really interesting channel well done Tim
Thanks Dan
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.
What a desolate location... real sense of isolation too.
yes I was hoping for that to come across in the video
Thanks Tim great video and interesting look forward to the next Yvonne 😊
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This was fascinating but I'm glad you were careful! Congratulations again on 100k subs!
thanks Foxy
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!
Congrats on the 100k, I've only just found your videos and I'm loving them, you go to so many places that I haven't visited since I was a child which was about 3,000 years ago, or at least it feels like that.
lol thanks for subbing
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
congrats on the 100k tim,your videos are really getting some good views 🙂🙂🙂
thanks Julie
Félicitation pour les 100 k🥰, vraiment flippant la traversée du terrain militaire 😱
Great vid, Tim! Interesting and informative 👍
thanks the bard
Absolutely luv your channel enjoy seeing new places thank you Tim x
My pleasure
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
Great video Tim! What amazing views from that walk, glad you didn't go any further!
A very interesting walk thanks for sharing this great video.
thanks Tom
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
Congrats Tim on the 100k well deserved
thanks Paul
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.
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
That part of the Essex coast is really odd isn’t it? I’d love to do that walk one day (with a guide!)
I checked the railway and it seems to come from a branch just before shoeburyness railway station and runs right through the MOD base - most of it is in good nick apart from that last half mile or so where you crossed.
Congratulations on the 100k!
I live in Leigh-on-Sea....I've walked these paths Many times .....Great place ❤️
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.
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.
Great video Tim, a very interesting place. I'm hoping to go to the Foulness Island Heritage Centre at the beginning of April.
Oh wow... Just seen u hit 100k. Huge congrats, keep up the amazing work x
thanks jo jo
Lovely sunny day for a lovely walk. 🙂
An interesting walk. Like it. something out of the ordinary. A very big thunbs up to you.
thanks Scully
You are a brave man Tim
Congrats on 100k subs , I knew you’d smash it 👍🏼
thank you :-)
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.
Congrats on 100K, thanks for taking us on all these interesting & fascinating adventures 😎👍🏻
you are welcome thank you :-)
100k well done mate keep up the good work
thanks James
Great vid, thanks for sharing !! 😊👍
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Bit scary id not go further either ! Though love to watch it come in🫣
Tide also in some Places comes up underneath not just rolling in from shore line
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
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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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.
Great video! Wouldn’t want to get stuck out there!
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
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
The tower is called a Sanger, armed guards would be posted inside
Shoebury range was actually an artillery and rocketry testing site up til the 1970s.
Nice video Tim, you could have a go at the smugglers path on the east end of Ringstead Bay near Weymouth. I done the first zig down the hill with my partner and saw the zag and chickened out 😂 one mistake and it's a 100'ish meter tumble to the rocks. There's a nice 3d video on UA-cam if you search 'smugglers path ringstead'. I look forward to the video 😁👍
Fascinating! Thank you
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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'.
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.
Congratulations Tim on your 10k subscribers 🥳🤗
100k
100 ..lol thanks sam
Well done Tim for being so brave. The place looks eerie. And God...a lot of us would make the mistake of out staying🌟
thanks Sharon
Creepy similar walk as is Filey Brigg nearby potential being cut off by incoming tides👍
I know
Tim, that did feel spooky! 100k yeah!
thanks Andy :-)