Guess the Place

[Local Hiker]

John Walker, spot on. Over to you.
It is the track into Sheerness Docks.
The track goes through the large rusty blue gates to the immediate left of the toll house.
I am looking north. The branch just south of here is lifted and gone, so the track in the picture is now severed from the rail network.
To the immediate right (east) of where the picture was taken, there is a large flattened building site that was once Sheerness Steel Mill.

[John Walker]

I think you're on the disused track alongside West Street and the A249 in BlueTown (Close to the Royal Fountain hotel) ?

[Local Hiker]

Clue: The toll house was for a pier, not a road.

[Local Hiker]

Clue: The piermaster lived in the toll house.

[Diapason]

Diapason,  nice photo at Aylesford Priory

Spot on, Local Hiker. My first visit there.

[Local Hiker]

Clue: The white house above my bike is a toll house.

[Local Hiker]

Diapason,  nice photo at Aylesford Priory

[Diapason]

I think we are now playing!

My offering has an ecclesiastical connection. Only a few miles from the county town.

[Local Hiker]

johnfilmer, I was indeed on Sheppey that day, not too famous for its cobbled tramways...

[johnfilmer]

Simply a guess - are you on Sheppey?

[Local Hiker]

jimawilliams, thanks.
I am not familiar with the area, and would not have guessed it without your "Upnor Castle" clue.
And, since the cricket field no longer exists, modern maps and Google Earth would not have helped.
I incorrectly started looking for footbridges over railways.


Anyway, I was here a couple of years ago. That is my bike, not a lightweight railway maintenance vehicle. Where was I?

[jimawilliams]

[Local Hiker]

[jimawilliams]

Ok maybe time for a clue.  Approximately west, one kilometre from a castle, an  Elizabethan artillery fort that overlooks the River Medway.

[jimawilliams]