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WAKERING (GREAT & LITTLE) AND FOULNESS

Pigot's Essex 1832-3 Trade Directory

GREAT WAKERING is in the hundred of Rochford, six miles S.E. from that town, and situated between it and Foulness; standing higher than the latter place, and having a fertile and well cultivated soil. The parish contains a neat church, and a population of 834 inhabitants.

LITTLE WAKERING parish is contiguous to Great Wakering; and consists of a few houses, a neat church, and 297 inhabitants.

FOULNESS ISLAND is nearly 20 miles in circumference, lies opposite to Wakering and Pagelsham upon the eastern extremity of Rochford hundred, encompassed by branches of the sea, the only passage to it being by the sands at low water, the distance over which is about six miles. The island contains about twenty farms, near the centre of which is the church, an ancient building with a small spire. - Foulness Island contains about 6,000 acres; and the parish of Foulness possessed, in 1831 630 inhabitants.

POST OFFICE, WAKERING, James Gardner, Post Master - Letters arrive every morning at nine, and are despatched every afternoon at two.

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