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Ron and Wendy Green  Pond House  Mersea Island

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WENDY’S DIARY Updated 14th March 2013

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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 X-rays.  

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The Golf House East

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Rosetta hosting Oyster Feast  Packing Shed Island  1913

Mersea and Tollesbury

Oyster Fishery

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Dog & Pheasant

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Old Rectory East Mersea 1920s

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Maps and Guides

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East Mersea Church circa

Waiting for the Ferry from Brightlingsea East Mersea

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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

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West Mersea