Wessex Location Map Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/wessex-location-map Mon, 03 Dec 2018 13:47:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Where is Essex ? Essex Map Location http://travelsfinders.com/essex-essex-map-location.html http://travelsfinders.com/essex-essex-map-location.html#respond Mon, 03 Dec 2018 13:47:32 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=267014 Essex has several low-lying islands at the mouths of its creeks and estuaries, with the larger ones of Mersea, Foulness and Canvey being inhabited. Fishing was a major industry in Essex for centuries, and it is probably most renowned for its oyster beds with there still being beds in Colchester, on the Colne estuary, today. Despite the census returns recording a rise in the numbers of fishermen and women in the county from 1,349 to 8,000 between 1851 and 1901, fishing has suffered a major decline overall in the last 150 years, partially due to overseas competition. By 1931 the

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