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Amateur British & Irish Yachtsmen Before World War One
Saltings
The term "saltings" is mentioned more than once by the sailors writing for The Yachting Monthly and the numerous books that many of them produced. In his 1926 book The New Lights O' London Donald Maxwell provides a good description of a "salting" while discussing the origins of Buckingham Palace and its restoration by Sir Ashton Webb:
The whole region here, now the gardens of Buckingham Palace, St. James's Park, and the Green Park, was a marshy tract of country in the Middle Ages. I should imagine it consisted of what in the Thames and Medway marshes are called "saltings," rank pastures intersected by little creeks, generally above the tide level, but covered at high tides, and thus of very little use.
The New Lights O' London, Donald Maxwell