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Search for Image ID ""Image 60 A Study of the Strood by W.E. Duane. Chapter 7. Page 37. The Boundaries of West Mersea and the Strood. The extent of the Strood at present is 800 yards, but reference to the Chapman and Andre map of 1777 will show that the Strood was once considerably longer and the fork in the present road was on the 'Marshe'. The size of the Island was increased, and the length of the Strood shortened by the building of the sea walls which began to be constructed about 1775. These brought a transformation to the region. The map of Bocking Hall [Note 1] shows forty-eight acres of land reclaimed in 1776. In the sale particulars of Bower Hall farm it was declared in 1775 that [Note 2] "It is very capable of great improvement as 80 acres of saltmarsh might be made fresh at the Expence of £30. or £40; and thereby made land worth 30s. an acre and which at present is of little or no value." D.W. Gramolt records [Note 3] in his thesis on Coastland Marshlands of East Essex, "that 20 acres by the Strood were also embanked and the old sea wall still stands. A further 60 acres was embanked across the channel". On referring to the Ordnance Survey Map Sheet TM10 [SOS_007_001_003 ] the two sea walls making a primary an secondary boundary are clearly seen. Tithe Maps give field names such as Counter Wall, Newlands, New Inclosure and New Marsh and these are suggestive of recent enclosures from the sea. [Note 4.] ...
Note 1 ERO D/DHE P.1
Date: 1965 Image ID SOS_007_002 Category 1 Mersea-->Strood | |
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