Cement Works, Mud Digging
Portland cement was made at Masons Cement Works in Waldringfield on the Deben. 120,000 tons of mud was taken Hemley Point and Early Creek in SB Kingfisher
Galleons & Girling’s Hard
The Galleon’s racing mark is most likely misnamed. The hard to the southeast was once known as Girling’s Hard. There are records of the Girling family owning land in the area as far back as 1521. So, barring a convincing Galleon tale that is probably the origin. In the late nineteenth century, …
Before the seawalls were built
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 …
The Essex Coastline in the Middle Ages
Whitaker Channel
Buxey and Swire Hole
Landguard Point
Waldringfield Cuttings
Cuttings in saltmarsh – none similar – purpose not known.
Waldringfield Island, Stonnor Creek and Burrell’s Long Wall
Is it an island? – is in Waldringfield? – changes in banks and channels
Waldringfield Horse and the Winkle
Once buoyed – Alker Tripp – Winkle Island – Stonnor Channel
Hams and Tips
TBA
Harwich Harbour Shoals
6:NW & SE Roughs Tower site and Rough Shoals
The current buoys in the area mark the Roughs Tower and not the shoal. Rough Shoals were first buoyed 1776.
Stone Bank
Stone Banck is marked n 1686 Collins Chart and buoyed in 1821 probably for cement stone dredging. Part of the Medusa Channel.
Felixstowe Shoreline
Sunk Sand
Long Sand
Kettle Bottom
Bawdsey Bank
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 …
Whiting
Cutler
Red Beard Sand
Bloody Point at Shotley Spit
Deben and Orwell have Bloody Pint – King Alfred vs the Danes – Martellos – Stone Heaps
1841 A Walk on Gunfleet Sands
From: 1851 A Season at Harwich by W.H.Lindsey – there is also discussion of the channel passing north of Landguard. See page 206. Note: it is about 5nM from Walton to the Sands. Miss Archer, having asked the probable extent of the Gunfleet Sands, the kind host furnished his attentive guests with a description of …