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WALTON BACKWATERS
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Walton Backwaters
INTRODUCTION:  VIDEO 1 | VIDEO 2
NAZE PROTECTION SOCIETY'S
"CRAG WALK"
NAZE NEWS
(Naze Protection Society Newsletter)
Tendring District Council's
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STORM SURGE Nov 2007
Naze Tower & The Backwaters
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~ THE BACKWATERS ~
Saving the Naze
The Walton Backwaters
The picture was taken in 2004 from the top of the recently opened Naze Tower  looking westwards. The Backwaters are a world-renowned RAMSAR site comprising a 5000-acre natural saltmarsh archipelago of creeks and islands. The wild and magical beauty of the area was immortalised by 1930's childrens author, Arthur Ransome, in his best selling book, "Secret Water".
      In the foreground of the picture can be seen the newly renovated  Walton Hall. Behind it lies rich farmland gently sloping down to the boat moorings in the Walton and Twizzle Channels. Behind this is Horsey Island and beyond the distant trees runs the thin ribbon of water that marks the entrance to Kirby Creek from Hamford Water.
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The Walton Backwaters Experience
A thin finger of land at the northern end of the Naze - itself vulnerable to sea erosion - is all that protects this unique area from total destruction by the sea that has already taken away nearly a quarter of the natural salt marsh nature reserve in the last thirty years! [watch video 1 | watch video 2]
      This protective strip of land comes to an end at the low-lying, isolated and exposed Stone Point. Environmental groups like the Naze Protection Society Charitable Trust view its preservation as crucial to the long term survival of both the Naze and the Walton Backwaters.
      Essex Estuarine Strategies (EES) is the organisation that handles local flood defence management and it is due to start development of a risk management strategy to safeguard the future of the Walton Backwaters in June 2005. This will be a welcome initiative that complements the environmental campaigning that the Naze Protection Society has conducted over the eight years of its existence.
      The Naze Protection Society passionately feels that this campaign is worth it! The Backwaters represent one of the last remaining areas of its kind in the world; that is why to see it and to find out about its past, its culture, its ecological importance - is indeed an experience; one that you will no doubt never forget.
      The Backwaters are situated in the embayment between the Oakley villages on the south side of the Harwich/Dovercourt peninsula - itself steeped in maritime history - and Walton-on-the-Naze on the north side of the Tendring peninsula with its traditional seaside past. Included are such names as Beaumont, Landermere, and Kirby that hold intriguing tales of the mighty Thames barge trade, smuggling, classical literature, seal colonies, real-life giants and even of Jack the Ripper...
      The protected nature reserves of Skippers Island off Hamford Water, and John Weston on the Naze peninsula, offer a unique wildlife glimpse of a vanishing part of the natural world. Special boat trips are available to offer rare observations of migratory and breeding birds, and of marine life - some of which is found nowhere else in the British Isles.
      The pages of this site offer a taste of this priceless - but fragile - heritage. [information update - avian flu facts | RSPB policy | advice to birdwatchers]
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Sailing on The Twizzle
In the background are the mast tops of the boats in the 'storm-proof' Titchmarsh Marina - a harbour dug out of part of the vaste expanse of mud that lies to the south of Horsey Island and is called The Wade.
  
 
Frinton & Walton Heritage Society:
 Sunset across The Wade
"Across the level bank of mud the trees... stood cluttered together as though afraid of the darkening gloom...  A faint air passed through their branches and their sigh came delicately across the intervening mud and water, a sigh that a child makes when it is on the verge of Dreamland."

'THE MAGIC OF THE SWATCHWAYS'
MAURICE GRIFFITHS
THE NAZE PROTECTION SOCIETY
6 pages of  facts...  3 historical maps...
50 million years...  Price £2.00
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