Chalk & Channel Way
The Chalk & Channel way passes through the Kent Downs, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and links the harbours of Dover and Folkestone as part of the National Cycle Network, Route 2.
Samphire Tower by Jony Easterby & Pippa Taylor
Inside the tower is a custom built brass telescope.
Internal paintings by Sax Impey
Flora Calcarea by Rob Kesseler
Coccoliths by Tim Clapcott
Further Information
Chalk Lines - 10 Poems by Ros Barber.
Ros created a series for particular locations along the route. The poems refer to something individual about each site – linked to the land itself, its flora and fauna, or the human history.
Gorse
Here, gorse slanders the countryside:
fierce with hypodermics and fleshed
the bright yellow of a bruise's edge,
its sharp, shelterless heart no break
for the wind, and all spiked it is
but oh, so yellow, the yellow
of birdsong bursting from the chest
and the yellow of all of spring, all year
as it flowers and flowers, all year
still yellow, raging yellow like a love
that won't die down, a love that splits
you apart and finds you, mollusc-soft
in your mouth, the you that was always
afraid before but wanted to flower,
and flower, relentlessly yellow, unstoppable.
Listening Ear: The remains of a World War II defence system