To the Crayford Marshes via Barnehurst

After attending to an appointment in the Bexleyheath area, we decided to catch a Train to Slade Green  and visit the Crayford Marshes in search of a Small Heath Butterfly and Common Restharrow.

But Yippee: before settling off, we caught a Goods Train passing through Bexleyheath viz.

However, with Trains to Slade Green seemingly off the Menu, we travelled instead to Barnehurst (the stop before Slade Green) and then bicycled to Slade Green and the Crayford Marshes. En-route, just after leaving Barnehurst Station, we saw a few Plants of Jersey Cudweed viz.

(Grid Reference TQ5076)

On the Marsh (or what there is left of it), it was nothing doing with regard to a Small Heath Butterfly but we did find the Common Restharrow viz.

And some Wild Carrot with particularly distinctive purple flowers viz.

Footnotes:

[I] the View, looking across the Crayford and Dartford Marshes to the Dartford Bridge (crossing the River Thames):

and [ii] the (tidal) River Darent, which runs between the Crayford and Dartford Marshes: