Searching for "CANVEY ISLAND"

You searched for "CANVEY ISLAND" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, but the match we found was not what you wanted. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 14 possible matches we have found for you:

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  • If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "CANVEY ISLAND":
    Place name County Entry Source
    Benfleet, South Essex with ry. sta. (including part of Canvey island), S. Essex, 35½ miles E. of London, 1948 ac., pop. 681; P.O. Bartholomew
    BENFLEET (South) Essex Canvey island, and on the London and Southend railway, at Benfleet station, 4 miles SSW of Rayleigh. It has a post Imperial
    BOWERS-GIFFORD Essex Canvey island; and has a post office under Chelmsford. Acres, 2,606. Real property, £3,768 Pop., 259. Houses Imperial
    Canvey Island Essex Canvey Island , par., encircled by river Thames, S. Essex, 4½ miles SW. of Rayleigh, 4383 ac. (156 water), and 4867 tidal Bartholomew
    CANVEY-ISLAND Essex CANVEY-ISLAND , a chapelry in Billericay and Rochford districts, Essex; encircled by the Thames, opposite the Hope, adjacent to Benfleet Imperial
    CHAPMAN-SAND Essex CHAPMAN-SAND , a shoal in the Thames; off the south side of Canvey island. A beacon is on it. Imperial
    Chapman Sands Essex shoal, in river Thames, off S. side of Canvey island; has a lighthouse, with occulting light (Sea Reach) seen 11 miles. Bartholomew
    CORRINGHAM Essex Canvey Island, and on the London and Southend railway, 2 miles NE of Stanford-le-Hope r. station, and 7½ S by E of Billericay Imperial
    Essex Essex islands, such as Canvey, Foulness, Wallasea, Mersea, &c. Essex is one of the Metropolitan shires, or "Six Home Bartholomew
    ESSEX Essex islands, situated within the general coast-line, and divided by only narrow belts of water from the interior tracts, diversify others. The chief islands are Horsey, near the Naze; Mersea, at the mouth of Blackwater river; Wallasea and Foulness, at the mouth of the Crouch river; and Canvey Imperial
    HADLEIGH Essex Canvey island. The parish includes part of that island, and comprises 2, 689 acres. Real property, £2, 298; of which Imperial
    HOLE-HAVEN, or HOLY-HAVEN Essex Canvey Island to the neighbourhood of Pitsea. Supplies of lobsters, from Norway and Scotland, are deposited here for conveyance up the Thames Imperial
    Pitsea Essex Canvey island), 1765 ac. (18 water), pop. 203; vil., on a creek of the Thames, 10 miles W. of Southend Bartholomew
    SOUTHCHURCH Essex Canvey Island; and comprises 1,180 acres of land, and 3,285 of water. Real property, £9,085; of which Imperial
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