CREEKSEA, a parish in the hundred of DENGIE,
county of ESSEX, 2 miles (N. W. by W.) from Burnham,
containing 152 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
rectory, to which the -vicarage of Althorne was united
in 1811, in the archdeaconry of Essex, and diocese of Lon-'
don, rated in the king's books at £9. 8. 10., and in the patronage
of J. Robinson, Esq. The church is dedicated
to All Saints. There is a ferry over Crouch river to
Wallisea  island,' from the south side of. the parish,
where the marshes are protected from inundation by
strong embankments, about nine feet in height.