Welcome to

The Romney Marsh
Countryside Partnership

The Romney Marsh Countryside Partnership (RMCP) was set up in June 1996, a sister project to the White Cliffs Countryside Partnership.

The project aims to care for the special landscape and wildlife of the Romney Marsh and Dungeness, and by the same token encourages people to enjoy and understand the countryside through guided walks, countryside events and children’s activities.

We are a non-profit making organisation, managing various sites across the Romney Marsh with the help of our conservation volunteers and visiting corporate volunteer groups.  We always welcome new volunteers, so do get in touch if you would like to volunteer by emailing: RMCP@dover.gov.uk.

Guided walk near Ham Street Woods

The project aims to care for the special landscape and wildlife of the Romney Marsh and Dungeness, and by the same token encourages people to enjoy and understand the countryside through guided walks, countryside events and children’s activities.

We are a non-profit making organisation, managing various sites across the Romney Marsh with the help of our conservation volunteers and visiting corporate volunteer groups.  We always welcome new volunteers, so do get in touch if you would like to volunteer by emailing: RMCP@dover.gov.uk.

A sewer where water vole signs were found in abundance

The dunes at Greatstone

A sewer where water vole signs were found in abundance

And in the dunes at Greatstone – a small patch of Samphire flourises

A sewer where water vole signs were found in abundance

Volunteers work throghout the year to support fauna and flora on and around the Romney Marsh – and January is a great time for hedge planting and laying!

Volunteer litter picking

Become a Volunteer

Help the RMCP to look after the countryside by joining one of our regular conservation volunteer tasks. Tasks vary throughout the year, from laying hedges, to clearing scrub to surveying wildlife. Find out more about helping your local wildlife by volunteering.

Corporate Volunteering

The RMCP are now offer corporate volunteering opportunities on Nature Reserves across the Romney Marsh. Contact us now to find out more: RMCP@dover.gov.uk or 01797 367934.

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Livestock grazing helps us manage and improve wildflower meadows on our nature reserves. These cows are at Romney Warren, just outside New Romney. Do you live locally and want to volunteer an hour a week by being a looker for us? Please get in touch @fstonehythedc #Kent #cows

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It's officially bird nesting season, and this magpie is making the most of spring, having built a sizeable nest already! This is on the Romney Warren Local Nature Reserve in Kent. #Wildlife #spring #Romneymarsh #Kent @fstonehythedc @_BTO

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 Conserving wildlife across the Romney Marsh

The Romney Marsh Countryside Partnership is involved in managing various nature reserves across the Romney Marsh, from Dungeness NNR to Greatstone Dunes and Romney Warren. We also get involved where we can in other projects across the Marsh that help improve areas for wildlife.

We are currently creating ponds for wildlife across the Romney Marsh, and further afield into Folkestone and Dover, as a delivering body for Natural England’s District Level Licensing Scheme. If you are interested in creating or restoring a pond (minimum size 10m x 15m) on the Marsh, or further afield, do get in touch with us at: RMCP@dover.gov.uk. Or call Steff on: 07864 608825 for more information.

St Thomas a Becket Church Romney Marsh

The now isolated church of St Thomas À Becket (Fairfield) is typical of the many unusual sights to be seen on the Romney Marsh.

The old Dungeness lighthouse

The old lighthouse at Dungeness (which is open to the public).

Hoverfly (Heliphilus pendulus) seen on RMCP guided walk

Promoting and caring for the landscape and wildlife of the Romney Marsh

Join us on one of our events and find out more about the Romney Marsh

Lympne Castle and the ruins of the Roman Portus Lemanis

Looking over a region reclaimed from the sea

Lympne Castle and the ruins of the Roman Portus Lemanis sit on the escarpment overlooking the edge of the Romney Marsh. The Royal Military Canal runs along the length of the Marsh’s northern boundary.

Map illustration of the Romney Marsh area

The Romney Marsh

Romney Marsh is a sparsely populated wetland and shingle headland bounding the counties of Kent and East Sussex. It covers about 100 square miles and is so unique it has subsequently been referred to as the ‘fifth continent’.

 

Website Update

This website has been sponsored and maintained for a number of years thanks to a local business owner who wanted to celebrate all that is good about the area.