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READ MORE: The picturesque walk on the edge of Essex which is immortalised in famous artwork Leading down to the town, you have a spectacular view over the Blackwater Estuary, which compliments ...

Because the wide, shallow Blackwater Estuary - off Mersea Island was considered to be an obvious landing beach during invasion threat 1940-1941, it was mined and fenced off.

A LEADING conservation charity has named the Blackwater Estuary as one of the UK's most important marine locations in the UK in urgent need of… ...

More than 180 competitors ploughed through the estuary mud across the mouth of a river in Maldon, Essex. The Maldon Mud Race, run annually across the River Blackwater, raises tens of thousands of ...

Native oyster populations in Essex river estuaries are thought to be close to collapse Native oyster beds in river estuaries in Essex have been closed to commercial fishing after a survey revealed ...