Southminster
Southminster is a town and electoral ward on the Dengie peninsula in the Maldon area of Essex in the East of England. It exists about three miles north of Burnham-on-Crouch as well as ten miles south-east of Maldon. To the north is the River Blackwater, which is tidal and because Roman times has been the entrance to trading in the location. Southminster remains in the centre of the Dengie peninsula, which as soon as created a hundred of the same name. A significant equine market made use of to be held yearly in the town. Southminster marshes were a much-loved centre for hare flowing in Victorian times. Pandole Wood has old earthworks believed to day from the Iron Age. The landscape bordering the community, and in other places on the peninsula, is identified by a pattern of purely rectangle-shaped field limits, with proof of a device of measurement having been applied to the system overall. Center Saxon managements have been suggested as its origin, although the road to the Roman sea ft at Bradwell-on-Sea additionally complies with the pattern.
