Maplin Sand

Maplin Sands stretch from Shoebury to Foulness on modern charts. The late eighteenth-century John Chandler Chart, refers to the large flat north of Havengore Creek, including the Whittaker Sands. The lower part, of what is now the Maplin Sands, was called Shoebury and Blacktail. Note ‘Shoe Hole’ in the West Swin. The simplification on modern …

Stone Bank

Stone Banck is marked n 1686 Collins Chart and buoyed in 1821 probably for cement stone dredging. Part of the Medusa Channel.

Cork Sand

Cork Sand is situated between the Gullet/Stone Bank to the west, Roughs Shoals to the east, West Rocks or Goldmer’s Gat to the south and Harwich Deep Water Channel to the north. There is also a little used channel for small vessels between the Cork Sand and West Rocks. Just to the east is Cork …

Gunfleet Sand

Also see Gunfleet Old Light House and Beacon. Gunfleet Sand is a hard shingle bank extending from the Buxey Sand and running northeast towards a few miles off the Naze: it partially dries at Low water. Goldmers Gat separates it from the West Rocks to the north. The Swin Spitway at the south end separates …