Southminster
Southminster is a town and selecting ward on the Dengie peninsula in the Maldon district of Essex in the East of England. It lies about three miles north of Burnham-on-Crouch and ten miles south-east of Maldon. To the north is the River Blackwater, which is tidal and also given that Roman times has been the gateway to trading in the location. Southminster remains in the centre of the Dengie peninsula, which once developed a hundred of the same name. A major horse market used to be held each year in the community. Southminster marshes were a favourite centre for hare rushing in Victorian times. Pandole Wood contains old earthworks thought to day from the Iron Age. The landscape surrounding the town, and in other places on the peninsula, is identified by a pattern of purely rectangle-shaped area boundaries, with evidence of a device of measurement having been related to the system all at once. Center Saxon administrations have actually been suggested as its origin, although the road to the Roman sea ft at Bradwell-on-Sea likewise adapts the pattern.