Manorway Fleet
Introduction
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Manorway Fleet
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 9 Jul 2015
Fifty or sixty years ago, and for a good time thereafter, this view was largely open water fringed with reeds. As time has passed the reeds have closed in over nearly all of the fleet. Fleets are the upper parts of creeks which have been cut off from the sea by the building of sea walls. This was the main continuation of Shell Haven Creek. Sluices were normally made through the sea wall, as in this case, for land drainage at lower states of the tide.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.516162
Longitude
0.497552