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This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the
late 19th century over 90,000 entries.
Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for
placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those
already linked to "places"), the following
entries mention "WALLASEA":
Place name County Entry Source BURNHAM Essex Wallasea island, 8½ miles NNE of Southend r. station, and 10 SE of Maldon. It has a post office Imperial CREEKSEA, Cricksea, or Crixea Essex Wallasea ferry, 2 miles WNW of Burnham, and 8½ SE of Maldon r. station. It has a post office Imperial Essex Essex Wallasea, Mersea, &c. Essex is one of the Metropolitan shires, or "Six Home Counties, " and took its name Bartholomew ESSEX Essex Wallasea and Foulness, at the mouth of the Crouch river; and Canvey, on the Thames. The sea-board is low, flat Imperial FOULNESS Essex Wallasea island, by a narrow strait, -and on the SW, from smaller islands, by other narrow straits; is bounded, on the SE and E, by the North Imperial PAGLESHAM Essex Wallasea island, 4 N E by E of Rochford, and 7 N E by N of Southend r. station; and has a post Imperial POTTON (Great and Little) Essex Wallasea and Foulness islands, and from the mainland, only by narrow straits; extending jointly 3¼ miles from N W to S E; and lying Imperial
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