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Taken at sunset looking along Thames towards London, with Kent in the background
©Angela Tuff
Dist:0.2km<br/>Chapman Sands is a large submerged sand bank about a kilometre to the east of Canvey Island. At high tide two large ships exit the River Thames and head for the North Sea.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.2km<br/>Slipway for the Chapman Sands sailing club, just over the sea wall to the right.
©Ron Galliers
Dist:0.3km<br/>Shelters along Canvey's sea defence wall are sparse and to say the least rudimentary... This one does not even have a seat. [[2305181]] is visible in the distance.
©Nigel Cox
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©Ron Galliers
Dist:0.4km<br/>Park Lane the home ground of Canvey Island Football Club can be seen in this photo.
©terry joyce
Dist:0.4km<br/>The road name is intriguing. Canvey Island does not have a railway, yet alone a railway station, nor is there any evidence that it ever did have one. Perhaps the station referred to is a drainage pumping station or maybe a railway was intended to be built, and the road was named in anticipation. This is the view from the sea defence wall.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km<br/>Grassed area between Canvey Island FC and Leigh Beck seawall. [[916271]]
©Julieanne Savage
Dist:0.4km<br/>Housing estate along Park Avenue. Taken from the seawall. The fenced area in the background is Canvey Island FC's ground.
©Julieanne Savage
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is a section of Canvey's massive sea defence wall constructed in the 1980s, taken from one of the pedestrian ramps, going down from one of the access points. These access points are gaps in the wall that have storm gates that can be closed in the case of an anticipated storm surge up the Thames. The curved section at the top of the wall is designed to throw waves back into the sea.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is the intriguingly named Gafzelle Drive viewed from the top of the sea defence wall. The Canvey Community Archive website http://canveyisland.org/page_id__1140_path__0p2p30p.aspx has several images of Gafzelle Drive taken during a freshwater flood event in 1968, some 15 years after the catastrophic seawater flood and inundation of Canvey Island in 1953.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>The photographer does not know the formal name of this dyke but it does run along the eastern side of Kismet Park and excess water is pumped out into the Thames estuary by the St Anne's Pumping Station which is behind him. Although the dyke runs in a concrete conduit, old maps show that historically, and certainly before there was any residential development, there has always been a drain along this route.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>A fine sunny morning but there are no takers at this Adidas sponsored outdoor gym in Kismet Park.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>Welcome to Park Lane, home of the 'Gulls'.
©Julieanne Savage
Dist:0.5km<br/>Upside down houses that give a panoramic view over the Thames Estuary.
©Ron Galliers

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