Walland Marsh

The name means wall-land: its north-eastern border, separating it from the rest of Romney Marsh, is the Rhee Wall.

The plan eventually failed; the Rhee Wall has not contained water since medieval times.

The reclamation was done in stages by creating innings: an embankment was built round an area of marsh, which would drain at low tide.

[2] To retain the productive land, drainage channels, known locally as sewers, were created.

A notable example is White Kemp Sewer, which runs across the centre of the marsh, and flows into Jury's Gap Sewer; this leads to the coast at Jury's Gap, near Camber Sands.