An oyster fisherman is thought to have stumbled across a 4,000-year-old track once used by the Bronze Age elite of Essex to expand their settlements. Daniel French discovered the wooden planks almost half a mile offshore from Mersea Island as he was harvesting the shellfish. His discovery last mon…

During WW1 troops were stationed on the island, Mersea had become a restricted area and the beaches and the Strood were patrolled daily. Mersea people sometimes saw German airships coming over and witnessed bombing raids and although in view of later aerial horrors we are inclined to be ra…

Margery Allingham’s first published novel, Blackkerchief Dick, was set on Mersea Island, where her family spent many holidays. England’s easternmost inhabited island, Mersea Island is a few hundred yards off the Essex coast, about 7 miles from Colchester. In the 1920s, the island was a po…

Article from BBC Essex, 5 February 2015. Organisers of a project to bring red squirrels to an Essex island are hoping the animals will soon start to breed. Twenty squirrels have been released into the wild on Mersea Island since 2012, following a repopulation programme across East Anglia…