Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Mucking

Mucking, par. and vil., Essex, on river Thames, 4 miles NE. of Tilbury sta., 2217 ac. and 293 tidal water and 167 foreshore, pop. 251; a nunnery was formerly here; on Mucking Flat, 2 ½ miles E., is Mucking Light-house, with occulting light (Sea Reach) seen 11 miles.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Mucking Parish       Essex Ancient County
Place: Mucking

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