Romney Marsh is a sparsely inhabited wetland location in the counties of Kent and East Sussex in the south-east of England. It covers concerning 100 square miles (260 km2). An electoral ward in the exact same name exists. This ward had a population of 2,358 at the 2011 census. The Romney Marsh has actually been slowly accumulated over the centuries. One of the most considerable attribute of the Marsh is the Rhee Wall (Rhee is a word for river), forming a famous ridge. This attribute was expanded as a waterway in 3 stages from Appledore to New Romney in the 13th century. Sluices managed the circulation of water, which was after that released to purge silt from the harbour at New Romney. Inevitably, the fight was lost; the harbour silted up as well as New Romney declined in relevance. The Rhee kept part of the old port open up until the 15th century. The wall at Dymchurch was built around the same time; storms had actually breached the shingle barrier, which had actually protected it till that time. It is a common false impression that both these structures were developed by the Romans. In 1250 as well as in the adhering to years, a collection of storms appeared the coastal shingle banks, swamping substantial locations and also returning it to marsh, and also ruining the harbour at New Romney. In 1287 water damaged the port community of Old Winchelsea (now located some 2 mi (3 kilometres) out in Rye bay), which had actually been under threat from the sea since at the very least 1236. Winchelsea, the 3rd largest port in England and also a significant importer of white wine, was moved on greater land, with a harbour including 82 jetties. Those very same storms, however, aided to accumulate more tile: such coastlines currently left almost the entire seaward side of the marshland. By the 14th century, much of the Walland and also Denge Marshes had actually been reclaimed by "innings", the process of vomitting an embankment around the sea-marsh and also using the low-tide to let it run dry through one-way drains pipes set into the new seawall, running off into a network of dykes called in your area "drains" in 1462, the Romney Marsh Corporation was developed to mount drainage as well as sea protections for the marsh, which it remained to build right into the 16th century. By the 16th century, the program of the Rother had actually been changed to its channel today; most of the rest of the location had now been recovered from the sea. The shingle remains to be deposited. Consequently, all the original Cinque Ports of the Marsh are now much from the sea. Dungeness Point is still being included in: although (specifically near Dungeness and Hythe) an everyday procedure remains in place to counter the reshaping of the tile banks, making use of watercrafts to dredge and relocate the wandering roof shingles. The Marsh became the property of the Priory of Canterbury in the 9th century, that approved the first tenancy on the land to a guy called Baldwin, at some point between 1152 and 1167, for "as much land as Baldwin himself can enclose as well as drain pipes versus the sea"; Baldwin's Sewer (drain ditch) continues to be in use. The marsh has since become covered by a dense network of drainage ditches as well as once sustained large farming areas. These gutters are preserved as well as handled for lasting water levels by the Romney Marsh Area Internal Drainage Board. Romney Marsh adjoins the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, which is less developed than numerous other areas in Kent and also Sussex. The decline in sheep prices implied that also the local supply (sold worldwide for breeding for over 2 centuries) came to be unsustainable. Turfing had constantly been a lesser method because of the grassland kept brief by the sheep raised upon it, but farms are raising in size to make up for the decline in lasting livestock farming. Some view this as unsustainable as a result of the damage to soil ecology of the Marsh. The only other alternative, because 1946, has actually been for farmers to look to cultivable farming, transforming the landscape from a jumble of little family ranches to a couple of substantial cultivable manufacturing devices.