Havengore Island

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The south-east corner of Havengore Island viewed looking across Havengore Creek from the public footpath near Haven Point Havengore Island - geograph.org.uk - 916857.jpg
The south-east corner of Havengore Island viewed looking across Havengore Creek from the public footpath near Haven Point

Havengore Island is a low-lying, marshy island in the civil parish of Foulness, in the Rochford district, in the county of Essex, England. It is bounded by New England Creek to the north, Havengore Creek to the south west, the Middleway to the north west, with the North Sea to the south and east.

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It is linked by bridges to the mainland and to New England Island, from which the road continues to Foulness. Its south east coast borders the North Sea and like its south west shore is protected by levees.

The island has never been heavily populated and now has a few buildings along its single road. Its southern end is Ministry of Defence land.

HMS Beagle is said to have been used to block one of the channels around the island in its last days.

Civil parish

In 1931 the parish had a population of 12. [1] Havengore was formerly an extra-parochial area, from 1858 Havengore was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 1946 the parish was abolished and merged with Foulness. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Population statistics Havengore ExP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time . Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  2. ↑ "Relationships and changes Havengore ExP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 1 July 2023.

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