Lower Horse

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Lower Horse

Thames Estuary
(Essex)


Across Holehaven Creek to Lower Horse
Location
Location: 51°31’0"N, 0°32’7"E
Grid reference: TQ760828
Area: 31 acres
Data

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]

Outside links

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References

  1. OS six-inch map of 1898 Ordnance Survey Essex Sheet n LXXXIX.12 revised 1919, published 1922.