1. Today the footpath along the Royal Military Canal is part of the much longer (163 miles) Saxon Shore Way from Gravesend, in Kent, to Hastings, in East Sussex.
2. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), Peterborough New Town: A Survey of Antiquities in the Areas of Development (HMSO, London, 1969), pp. 40–44.
3. H. Godwin, Fenland: Its Ancient Past and Uncertain Future (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1978), pp. 142–3.
4. There is an excellent short illustrated guide to the region: J. Campbell, The Medieval Churches of Romney Marsh (Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust, Kent, 2012).
5. C. Greatorix, The Shinewater Track: The Excavation of a Late Bronze Age Waterlogged Structure on the Willingdon Levels, near Eastbourne, East Sussex, Report on Project Number 408 (Archaeology South-East, Hassocks, West Sussex, 1998); P. Clark (ed.), The Dover Bronze Age Boat (English Heritage, Swindon, 2004).