Canvey Island: Thorneycreek Fleet reedbed
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Canvey Island: Thorneycreek Fleet reedbed
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 8 Mar 2011
Successive editions of old large scale Ordnance Survey maps have shown a pond that has progressively decreased in size in this location. The latest satellite imagery shows that the pond has now silted up entirely, and this extensive and ecologically important reedbed has now colonized the whole site. The Thorneycreek Fleet pumping station building with its green door, from near which Image was taken, is just visible to the far right of the photograph.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.514726
Longitude
0.584534