WALLASEA (ISLE-OF), an island, partly in the parishes
of CANEWDON, EASTWOOD, PAGLESHAM, GREAT-STAMBRIDGE,
and LITTLE-WAKERING, hundred of ROCHFORD,
county of ESSEX, 6 miles (E.N.E.) from Rochford.
It is now a peninsula, formed by the rivers Crouch and
Broomhill, and joined to the main land by a causeway,
kept up at the expense of the several parishes to which
it belongs.