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We walked along the rubble and sea-cracked hardstanding, out along the causeway and over the mud. A man with his dog paused on the sea wall to watch us go. Here and there we had to wait for the tide to recede, revealing more of the path before us. I peered over the edge of the causeway as if off a pier, though the water to either side was only a few inches deep. A goby in a pool wriggled its aspic body deeper into the sand.
— Robert MacFarlane, on embarking upon the Broomway, a public right of way that skirts the Essex coastline, running through the ocean. Known as the deadliest path in Britain. “Silt,” Granta 119.
