MILTON, CHALKWELL and the CROWSTONE

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MILTON,CHALKWELL and the CROWSTONE

A new book from Marion Pearce

With over 75 illustrations and maps

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Milton  hamlet  has  sunk  into  oblivion,  but still to be  found are traces  of the  ‘middle  town’  between  Leigh-on-Sea and  Southchurch.

Chalkwell is a thriving residential area which has its roots  in  the  large  estates  of Victorian era and the  Crowstone  has   been  a  landmark  in  the Thames estuary for nearly eight hundred years.

In Milton, Chalkwell and the Crowstone Marion Pearce explores in depth Milton’s foundation  in  Saxon times through to its pre-eminence in the thirteenth century, when it was almost submerged by the tide. Thereafter with coming of the 19th and 20th centuries  substantial changes in housing, shopping and worship changed the hamlet of Milton forever as it was absorbed into the fashionable new seaside resorts of Southend and Westcliff-on-Sea.

The histories of the Crowstone or more accurately the crowstones are covered together with fascinating accounts of some of the elaborate ceremonies celebrating their installation together with details of the dignitaries whose names have been carved in stone over the years.

With over 75 illustration and maps
Size 234 X 134mm 300gms

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MILTON, CHALKWELL and the CROWSTONE
by Marion Pearce

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