Romney Marsh

Romney Marsh is a wetlands region in the country of England. It spans the counties of East Sussex and Kent on the southeastern coast of England. Part of the coastal region of the marsh travels through the village of Dymchurch.

Hammer Horror
The Romney Marsh was a pivotal setting in the 1962 movie Night Creatures by Hammer Film Productions. The majority of the film takes place in the year 1792, where a former pirate named Nathaniel Clegg, now operating under the guise of clergyman Parson Blyss, is in charge of a smuggling operation in Dymchurch. To keep prying eyes away, Captain Clegg and his crew masquerade as Marsh phantoms, who would haunt the coast line at night, creating an air of superstition and fear throughout the village.

An elderly man named Tom Ketch was out one evening and spied the Marsh phantoms as they rode across the wetlands. Terrified by their skeletal visage and the glowing bone-like costuming of their steeds, Tom Ketch retreated into the marsh where he fell and died of fright. His body was discovered in the marsh the following evening by Squire Anthony Cobtree.