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Events
Wildlife Trips
Thorpe Bay Rotary Club
Visitors Centre at Churchend - the centre is open every first Sunday of the month from April to October between midday and 4pm. There is a one hour tractor tour, weather permitting, starting at 2:30pm outside the centre. You must obtain a vehicle pass on the day from the Shoeburyness QinetiQ security gate and drive from there directly to the centre car park.
General articles about Foulness
Wikipedia – a substantial article on the history and geography of the Island
Patrick Arnold, Hon Sec. Friends of Foulness – a general article about Foulness on a web archive (it takes a little while for page to appear) "A considerable amount of nonsense has in the past been written and published about Foulness Island. I trust the following will be read by those who seek the truth rather than the myth"
History House – a Friends of Foulness page on this site with quite a few useful links
Creek Sailor - article by a nautical visitor to the island
Rochford Council – a short general article about Foulness
St. Osyths – a church to the North of Foulness, where the BANGS arrive
Visit Essex - Foulness Island article
Vision of Britain - Foulness
Old Towns – Foulness as described in 1837
Multimedia
YouTube - John Dobson video about the Island that is also shown on a loop at the Foulness Visitor Centre
Local web sites
Wakering and District Heritage – a local general web site, by Richard Kirton, based at Wakering which includes material on Foulness
Barling and Wakering Villages – an earlier local web site based at Barling which includes material on Foulness - click its "Heriage Site" tab for Richard Kirton's more recent site
Foulness Heritage Centre
QinetiQ – information about the Heritage Centre on the MOD contractor's site. Also pages there about Conservation and Archaeology on the Island
Foulness Heritage Society leaflet, in pdf format
Conservation
Rochford Council - Foulness Churchend Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan. This is a 2006 report about the conservation area on the Island
JNCC – Joint National Conservation Committee link about the Foulness Special Protection Area
British Listed Buildings – listed buildings on Foulness, most entries without any photographic support
St Mary's Church
Essex Churches – info and a few photos of St Mary's
Wikipedia - article about St Mary's
The marketing of St Mary's
Other
UK Genealogy Archives – one of the portals for seeking out relatives
The Mormon's website dealing with Genealogy
Francis Frith Books - books and photos
Peter Owen - postcards of Southend and surrounding areas, including Foulness
Dark Places – a fringe site investigating secret places from an artistic viewpoint, although the group seems to have been involved to some extent with the New Scientist magazine acting as an observer