Mersea Island
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Mersea Island Museum and Cobmarsh Island.
Mersea Island Museum
Museum
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Mersea Island Museum is situated 1½ miles west of Mersea 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. Cobmarsh Island is situated 2½ miles west of Mersea Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barrow Hill and West Mersea.
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.
West Mersea
Town
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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.
Little Wigborough
Hamlet
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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 4 miles west of Mersea Island.
Mersea Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Essex, England
- Category: landform
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Mersea Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ميرسيا (جزيرة)”
- Arabic: “ميرسيا”
- Cebuano: “Mersea Island”
- Dutch: “Mersea Island”
- French: “Mersea Island”
- German: “Mersea Island”
- Irish: “Oileán Mersea”
- Italian: “Mersea”
- Japanese: “マーシー島”
- Latin: “Insula de Merseia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mersea Island”
- Polish: “Mersea”
- Serbian: “Мерси”
- Swedish: “Mersea Island”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include West Mersea Beach and Pewit Island.
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