Downstream

sand is as dark as Demerara
sugar and I’m so intent on
following directions to the
Chalkwell Redcaps hut that
when I spot, ahead of me, an
obelisk in the water I almost
don’t pay it any attention. But
this is the Crowstone that
marks the end of the PLA’s
jurisdiction over the River
Thames. The marker on the
Kent side is the London Stone
on the Isle of Grain, while the
western marker is the London