West Mersea
West Mersea is a town and civil parish on Mersea Island in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. It is one of two parishes on the island, the other being East Mersea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,390 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in the Colchester borough of Essex, England, UK
- Also known as: “West Mersea, Essex”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mersea Island Museum and Cobmarsh Island.
Cobmarsh Island
Islet
Mersea Island is an island in Essex, England, in the Blackwater and Colne estuaries to the south-east of Colchester. Its name comes from the Old English word meresig, meaning "island of the pool" and thus is tautological.
Great Cob Island
Islet
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great Cob island is a small island in the estuary of the River Blackwater in Essex, England, the United Kingdom. The island is an area of low-lying salt marsh in the tidal channel known as Virley Channel that runs to the east of the village of Tollesbury. Great Cob Island is situated 2 miles southwest of West Mersea.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barrow Hill and Little Wigborough.
Barrow Hill
Locality
Barrow Hill is a hamlet in Essex, England. It is located on Mersea Island, approximately 2 km north-northeast of West Mersea near to where the Strood causeway meets the island.
Little Wigborough
Hamlet
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Little Wigborough is a village in the civil parish of Great and Little Wigborough, in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. Little Wigborough is located between Peldon and Great Wigborough. Little Wigborough is situated 2½ miles northwest of West Mersea.
Great Wigborough
Village
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great Wigborough is a village in the civil parish of Great and Little Wigborough in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. The place-name 'Wigborough' first appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Wicgebergha and Wighebergha. Great Wigborough is situated 3 miles northwest of West Mersea.
West Mersea
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: West Mersea, City of Colchester, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.77698° or 51° 46′ 37″ northLongitude
0.91736° or 0° 55′ 3″ eastPopulation
7,390Elevation
49 feet (15 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WMSOpen location code
9F32QWG8+QWOpenStreetMap ID
node 260364987OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“West Mersea” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “West Mersea”
- Basque: “West Mersea”
- Bengali: “ওয়েস্ট মার্সি”
- Bulgarian: “Уест Мърси”
- Cebuano: “West Mersea”
- Chinese: “West Mersea”
- Chinese: “西梅尔希”
- Chinese: “西梅爾希”
- Dutch: “West Mersea”
- French: “West Mersea”
- German: “West Mersea”
- Gujarati: “પશ્ચિમ મર્સિયા”
- Irish: “Mersea Thiar”
- Italian: “West Mersea”
- Japanese: “西メーシー”
- Kannada: “ವೆಸ್ಟ್ ಮೆರ್ಸೀ”
- Korean: “웨스트 메르세아”
- Ladin: “West Mersea”
- Latin: “Mereseia Occidentalis”
- Lithuanian: “Vest Mersėja”
- Min Nan Chinese: “West Mersea”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “West Mersea”
- Persian: “وست مرسی”
- Polish: “West Mersea”
- Portuguese: “West Mersea”
- Romanian: “West Mersea”
- Russian: “Уэст-Мерси”
- Silesian: “West Mersea”
- South Azerbaijani: “وست مرسی”
- Spanish: “West Mersea”
- Swedish: “West Mersea”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு மேற்ஸீ”
- Telugu: “పశ్చిమ మెర్సీ”
- Turkish: “Batı Mersea”
- Ukrainian: “Вест-Мерсея”
- Urdu: “مغربی مرسیا”
- Urdu: “ویسٹ میرسیا”
- Welsh: “West Mersea”
- “West Mersea”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Quarters Spit and Feldy Marshes.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mersea Island School Playing Field and Mersea Island School Playground.
Essex: Must-Visit Destinations
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