Kent, United Kingdom
Maunsell Forts Approach
Wartime sea forts standing in the Thames Estuary on stilts.
StructureSeriousGrey area
Logged04 Sept 202651.4756, 1.0472
DirectionsThe write-up
Clusters of steel towers built in 1942 to shoot at aircraft, left standing in the Estuary ever since, rusting on their legs. You cannot land — the structures are unsound and the ladders are gone. What you can do is get a charter out of whitstable on a flat day and sit underneath them, which is more unsettling than landing would be.
- Best window
- Flat calm, neap tides, summer only.
- Watch out
- Open Estuary with serious tidal streams and no shelter. This is a boat trip, not a walk — go with someone who knows the water.
- Access
- Unposted, unenforced, and not technically yours. Your call.
From people who went
Field notes
What people found
Dated, because conditions rot. Newest first.
tomasz_w
Two charters out of whitstable run it. Neither will go if there's any north in the wind, and they're right not to.