Ron and Wendy Green Pond House Mersea Island
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Ron and Wendy Greens
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Mermaid of Mersea launch May 2012
‘Mermaid’ moored near
Dabchicks Sailing Club
17th October 2012
East Mersea village is a scattered settlement with a population of around 280 which remains relatively stable.
In Norman times both East and West Mersea churches were built under their direction. Records of East Mersea in the Domesday Book mention agriculture, sheep, swine and fisheries
Mersea has a great length of sea wall, about ten miles in all, believed to have been constructed in Norman or Saxon times by landowners and this has been regularly strengthened since.
East Mersea Parish Church is dedicated to St Edmund, Martyr of East Anglia. The turret, once carried a beacon basket, lit to warn inland towns of the enemy’s approach. With the adjacent East Mersea Hall, the church was part of a five acre site, enclosed by a moat forming a stronghold against enemy invasion. A cannon ball found in the moat is now an exhibit in Mersea Museum.
Famous residents who lived there include Reverend Baring Gould , rector of East Mersea
who wrote well known hymns and novels and Dr Harnack one of the first workers with
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The Golf House East
Rosetta hosting Oyster Feast Packing Shed Island 1913
Mersea and Tollesbury
Oyster Fishery
Dog & Pheasant
Old Rectory East Mersea 1920s
Maps and Guides
East Mersea Church circa
Waiting for the Ferry from Brightlingsea East Mersea
1. Parish Church of St Peter & St Paul
12. Police Station
2. Catholic Church St Ced & St Gregory
13. St John Ambulance
3. Methodist Church
14. Clinic
4. Free Church
15. Mersea Museum
5. Assembly Hall
16. St Peter’s Well
6. Old City Hall
17. Veterinary Surgery
7. Mersea Island School
18. Glebe Playing Field
8. Doctor & Dental Surgery
19. Fire Station
9. Post Office
20. WMTC Offices
10. Mersea Centre (MICA)
21. Assembly Hall
11. Public Library
22. Firs Road Cemetery
Map of East Mersea
West Mersea