Southminster
Southminster is a community and electoral ward on the Dengie peninsula in the Maldon area of Essex in the East of England. It lies regarding 3 miles north of Burnham-on-Crouch and ten miles south-east of Maldon. To the north is the River Blackwater, which is tidal as well as because Roman times has actually been the entrance to trading in the location. Southminster is in the centre of the Dengie peninsula, which when created a thousand of the very same name. A significant horse market used to be held each year in the community. Southminster marshes were a preferred centre for hare surging in Victorian times. Pandole Wood consists of old earthworks believed to date from the Iron Age. The landscape bordering the community, and also elsewhere on the peninsula, is characterized by a pattern of purely rectangle-shaped area boundaries, with evidence of a device of measurement having been related to the system overall. Middle Saxon managements have been recommended as its origin, although the road to the Roman sea ft at Bradwell-on-Sea also adapts the pattern.
