Romney Marsh

"An historical patina covers their buildings more deeply than any others, in England at least. Indeed I know of no place save for Paris, where memories seem to think on every stone."

(Ford Maddox Ford)

" I see no trend running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting."

(John Piper)

Romney Marsh

"The peace and prettiness of the whole land here...has been good to me, and I stay on with unabated relish..."

(Henry James)

"This level tract has by the bounty of the sea been by degrees added to the land, so that I may not without reason call it 'The Gift of the Seas."

(Camden. Brittanica Antiqua 1607)