A Study of the Strood by W.E. Duane. Chapter 7. Page 41.

The Boundaries of West Mersea and the Strood contd.

Sir,
We beg to inform you that application is intended to be made to the Light Railway Commissioners for an Order authorizing a Light Railway from West Mersea to Colchester.

Property on the line of the proposed work, or within the limits of deviation intended to applied for,

As we are required to report whether you assent to or dissent from the proposed undertaking, will you please state any objections you may have to your property being taken, on the form attached and return by 10th December, next.

        From
        Spencer Cridland & Co."

Objections must have been forthcoming, because the nearest Railway Station West Mersea is still Colchester and the Strood and the Island are uncluttered by the commercial and residential development that beset Southend and Clacton when they were 'put on the map' by the railways.

The Strood has always been within the parish of West Mersea although as we have seen in a previous chapter the responsibility for its upkeep has changed.

In 1953 it came near to being removed from the parish boundary, when the 'Alteration of Areas' was being discussed by the Essex County Council. One proposal was that the boundary ...
Date: 1965