Mersea Island, Essex, England
The Strood Causeway
The Strood
The apparition of a Roman centurion and the sounds of legionaries fighting haunt the area between the Strood and the Peldon Rose Inn (pictured above).
For more information, please read Haunted Britain by Antony D. Hippisley Coxe.
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Visitor Information
Mersea Island is an island in Essex, England, in the Blackwater and Colne estuaries to the southeast of Colchester.
Its name comes from the Old English word meresig, meaning "island of the pool".
Pictured left is the Strood causeway flooded at spring tide courtesy of Simon Frost. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
