Queenhithe

[squirmelia]

Wednesday involved no mudlarking, as the tide was too high, but I did walk along the river past Queenhithe, where you are definitely not allowed to mudlark. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and has the remains of an old dock there. There are signs beside it and a mosaic, but although I’d read the signs previously, I'd never paid too much attention to it.

I could see sherds and pipes and oyster shells on the foreshore from standing on the path beside it though.

The PLA map has Queenhithe marked in red, but intriguingly on their map, it looks like you could mudlark just to the side of it, or in front of it, if the tide was out enough. I would worry though that I wouldn't know where the line was between allowed and definitely not.

Comments

[blue_mai]

Yes I was advised not to even slow down too much there! I'm always a bit nervous but I've never seen anyone "watching out".

[squirmelia]

I've read in Facebook groups of people being told off there, but I do see people there quite a lot at low tide, or maybe they are not really actually there, and are just to the side of it.