Dutch Cottage, Canvey Island
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Dutch Cottage, Canvey Island
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 21 Feb 2015
A grade II listed building, dated 1618. One of two similar cottages left on the island, from the period when a Dutch workforce were imported to secure the island from what was then frequent flooding by the sea. The date 1618 is rather odd as it predates by four or five years the start of this project. Now a museum.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.525052
Longitude
0.556573