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Dungeness: where the wild west meets the post-apocalyptic

By Olivia Wilson
In Lifestyle
5 Min Read
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They call Dungeness the desert of England, though experts observe that, lacking both the dearth of water and the extreme differential in night and day temperatures, it fulfils none of the desert criteria. The landscape certainly divides people – a broad, echoing flatness with the famous nuclear power station on one side, the shingle dipping into the sea on the other; railway carriages turned into...

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‘Why go to the Sahara when you can visit Kent?’: ‘desert’ life in Dungeness

By Olivia Wilson
In Lifestyle
9 Min Read
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The place that is sometimes called “England’s only desert” can be reached by a miniature railway line that runs to a nuclear power station on one of the largest expanses of shingle beach in Europe. Across the pebbled coastal plain, a tiny, gleaming steam engine chugs bravely and ridiculously past weather-beaten huts and abandoned fishing boats, to deposit its passengers near the foot of a black...

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