Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SHOEBURY-FORT

SHOEBURY-FORT, a place in South Shoebury parish, Essex; on Shoebury-Ness, 3¼ miles N by W of the Nore light, and 3½ ESE of Southend r. station. It has barracks for a detachment of royal artillery, a station for artillery practice, and a post-office‡ under Southend. The name Shoebury occurred in the Saxon times, and was then written Schoebirig.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a place"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: South Shoebury CP/AP       Essex AncC
Place: Shoeburyness

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