Wallasea, Isle Of
WALLASEA, ISLE OF, in the parishes of Canewdon, Eastwood, Paglesham, Great Stambridge, and Little Wakering, union and hundred of Rochford, S. division 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.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.