The Strood is the road on the causeway that links Mersea to Colchester. Essex County Fire and Rescue Service were called to three vehicles submerged Three cars were found in flood water in The Strood, West Mersea, Colchester Essex Police have closed off the area. [6], Strood was owned by the Rochester monastery from the 18th year of Edward III's reign until the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII, after which time as part of the Hundred of Sharnel (Shamwell) which included Cobham, it was passed to George Brooke, Lord Cobham. River Medway. contact the editor here. Essex Police tweeted to say: "Police, fire and the coastguard are currently on scene at The . Mersea Island, Essex and The Strood Live webcam at West Mersea for monitoring The Strood road crossing to Mersea Island. [9] The parish of Strood utilised some of the money to provide a workhouse for the poor. For the creek in Essex, see. There is a Gospel Mission Evangelical church in Brompton Lane and an Evangelical church in Darnley Road. Low air temperatures (max 46F on Fri afternoon, min 37F on Thu night). 2023 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. [2] The island is split into two main areas, West Mersea and East Mersea, and connected to the mainland by the Strood, a causeway that can flood at high tide. Please rate this website. House Mill, also known as Kimmins Mill or Frindsbury Mill, stood on Frindsbury hill and was a black smock mill. Aged are taken care of; ye Ignorant. Even scarier is that these sounds are also reportedly heard when the tide is covering the Strood!, Just south of the Strood, on the island itself, there is a burial mound. Channel 4's Time Team retold the legend in a February 2005 episode: "two Viking marauders captured a lonely nun called Osyth [sometimes noted as . Roads policing officer Pc Tom Raes tweeted at around 9.57am to say the road had opened. There is a "high" high tide (4,94m) that day due at 13.36 (at West Mersea, the time will be slightly different at the strood), so mid-day is low to medium risk depending on the weather. In the late 1940s, my family lived on Mersea Island, and my father told the story of a couple of friends of his. It was run by the monks of Newark Hospital, and had its own burial grounds. (function(){window.pagespeed=window.pagespeed||{};var b=window.pagespeed;function c(){}c.prototype.a=function(){var a=document.getElementsByTagName("pagespeed_iframe");if(0