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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 995 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SHOEBURYNESS , a promontory on the See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of See also:

Essex, See also:

England, the point at which the coast-See also:

LINE

line trends See also:

north-eastward from the See also:

ESTUARY (from the Lat. aestuarium, a place reached by aestus, the tide)

estuary of the See also:

THAMES

Thames. It gives name to a school of gunnery, where See also:

OFFICERS

officers are instructed and experiments carried out. The railway station (39 M. E. from See also:

LONDON

London, the See also:

TERMINUS

terminus of the London, Tilbury and Southend railway) bears the same name, but the See also:

PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish is See also:

South Shoebury; North Shoebury is a parish situated nearer to Southend-on-See also:

Sea. The See also:

church of St See also:

Andrew retains some ornate See also:

Norman See also:

WORK

work, but is mainly a Perpendicular reconstruction. On the seaward See also:

side of the Ness there is a large See also:

ancient earthwork which is attributed to the Norsemen through a reference in the Saxon See also:

CHRONICLE (from Gr. Xpovos, time)

Chronicle (894) under the name Sceobrig. The parish is in the S.E. See also:

PARLIAMENTARY

parliamentary See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country. Pop. (1901) 4081.

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