Canvey Island is a town, civil parish and reclaimed island in the Thames estuary, near Southend-on-Sea, in the Castle Point district, in the county of Essex, England.
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28 Facts About Canvey Island
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Canvey Island was mainly agricultural land until the 20th century, when it became the fastest-growing seaside resort in Britain between 1911 and 1951.
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Canvey Island is notable for its relationship to the petrochemical industry.
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Excavations on Canvey Island have unearthed a collection of early man-made objects comprising axes from the Neolithic era, a bracelet dating from the Bronze Age, and Iron Age pottery.
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In 1607 the Elizabethan antiquarian William Camden noted in his work Britannia that Canvey Island was documented in the 2nd century by the Alexandrian geographer Ptolemy.
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MacBean and Johnson, 18th-century historians, contend that Counus Canvey Island would have existed much further out to sea, so any similarity between the names is mere coincidence.
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Existence of several place names on modern Canvey Island using the wick suffix shows the influence of the early Saxon culture.
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The uniform flatness of Canvey Island suggests that these hills are likely to be the red hills of the Roman saltmaking industry, or the early makeshift sea defences constructed by some of the landowners around their farms.
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Canvey Island remained a popular holiday and weekend destination until the cheap foreign package holiday became popular in the 1970s.
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Canvey Island continued to receive 50 shipments of LNG per year from Arzew Algeria, until about 1984, British Gas closed the site in 1994.
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Canvey Island is extremely flat, lying 10 feet below mean high water level and consequently is at risk of flooding.
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The marshes in the west include the 30 hectares known as West Canvey Island marshes, acquired by the RSPB in 2007, and the Canvey Island Wick nature reserve.
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Canvey Island Wick is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest at the site of the abandoned and incomplete oil refinery.
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Canvey Island coalesced into a separate civil parish and ecclesiastical parish in 1881.
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Canvey Island is home to all four of the UKs emergency services.
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Canvey Island has a high proportion of white people compared to national figures; the ethnicity recorded was 98.
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The other main store on Canvey Island is Morrisons which is located on Northwick Road, some way from the town centre.
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Canvey Island currently has a small multi screen cinema located on the seafront called Movi-Starr which replaced the former Rio Cinema which closed in the 1970s and was replaced by Rio Bingo Hall .
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Canvey Island is home to a Calor Gas Storage Terminal, and an Oikos Oil depot located off Thames Road and Holehaven Road.
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Some of Canvey Island's lost landmarks include the Goldmine club on Western Esplanade, the original Oysterfleet public house and lighthouse and Cherry Stores.
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Canvey Island is connected to the mainland in the northwest by two roads with bridges: the A130 and the B1014 .
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Canvey Island has two comprehensive schools: the Cornelius Vermuyden School and Castle View School.
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Canvey Island has only been populated since the 17th century when the Dutch including reputedly Cornelius Vermuyden made the marshlands habitable.
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Canvey Island has its own 'lady of the lake' in the form of a woman who was drowned there many years ago.
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Canvey Island was an influential destination in the 1970s for artists of the pub rock genre of music such as Graham Parker, Elvis Costello, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Nick Lowe, and The Kursaal Flyers, while being home to "Canvey Island's finest" band Dr Feelgood.
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Canvey Island is the setting for the British author Nicola Barker's 2002 novel Behindlings.
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Canvey Island was home to a Prada fashion shoot in 2014 starring James McAvoy, and featured in BBC's Silent Witness shown on 2 and 3 February 2015.
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Canvey Island has two senior semi-professional football teams in Canvey Island F C and Concord Rangers F C .
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