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Snape marshes Carolyn and Ezra
Latitude: +52.15789707577549°
River wall and wetland, bend in River Alde. Carolyn Roy is a dancer currently occupied with listening. Ezra Roy Little (son) is a music producer. Both have been familiar with this site, this river and tides, since childhood.
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To reach the site of this stream you walk from the heath, alongside the marshes, over the Hardway Hill, through a thicket of hawthorne where nightingales sing and along the river's edge until you find the remains of the river wall that creates a bend in the river that wraps around it. Flights of duck cross this point at dawn and dusk, moving between feeding and resting sites. To the West are reedbeds, mudflats at low tide, and fragments of the old river wall that was breached in 1953. In that direction too is Snape Maltings. Straightahead South the river wall extends to the end of the soft headland - again in fragments, impassable. To the East are the Troublesome Reaches – turbulent waters caused by the river's bend, its expanse post-breaching, and exposure to wind. Across the River is Iken Church. As a child I was told that a Roman Causeway once crossed the river from the Hardway Hill to Iken Church. I come here because most people don't, to listen to the marsh, watch the tide, watch the light, |