Lower Horse
| Lower Horse | |
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Thames Estuary
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 Across Holehaven Creek to Lower Horse | |
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| Location: | 51°31’0"N, 0°32’7"E |
| Grid reference: | TQ760828 |
| Area: | 31 acres |
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Lower Horse is an uninhabited island of 31 acres island off the coast of Essex, lying in the Thames Estuary between Canvey Island and Stanford-le-Hope.
The island consisits of permanent marshland with six small internal creeks draining to the north; Lower Horse is part of the group of islands (five of which later re-clustered to form Canvey Island), that broke away from the Essex coastline in the Middle Ages.
The 1919 Ordnance Survey map of 1919 shows saltings cut into the island: the traditional method of sea salt extraction through evopation in salt pans.. The map also confirms the island's acreage.[1]
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References
- ↑ OS six-inch map of 1898 Ordnance Survey Essex Sheet n LXXXIX.12 revised 1919, published 1922.