Site of Tollesbury Pier, River Blackwater (EHER 13805)

Now destroyed. Tollesbury Pier was a wooden pier constructed in 1907 on the River Blackwater near Tollesbury. It was used as a departure and stopping point for steamers. The pier was 590 yards long with a depth of 10-25 feet at the pier-end. It appears on an Ordnance Survey map dating to 1923. The pier fell into disrepair and was damaged during the Second World War before it was removed in 1951. Beyond the shoreward end of the pier was Tollesbury Pier Station (1907-1921) used by the Kelvedon, Tiptree and Tollesbury Pier Light Railway (EHER 45184), which ran from Kelvedon.

Wooden pier. <1> Tollesbury Pier was opened on the 15th May 1907, with the first steamer sailing on the 25th September 1907 to Clacton. It was 590 yards long, with a depth of between 10-25 feet of water at the end (depending on the tide). It fell into disrepair and was partly blown up by the army in World War Two. The remainder was removed in 1951 and the last remains of the pier were washed away in the floods of 1953. <2> NRHE data transfer: Tollesbury Pier was a wooden pier constructed in 1907 on the River Blackwater near Tollesbury. It was used as a departure and stopping point for steamers. The pier was 590 yards long with a depth of 10-25 feet at the pier-end. It appears on an Ordnance Survey map dating to 1923 (1:2500). The pier fell into disrepair and was damaged during the Second World War before it was removed in 1951. Beyond the shoreward end of the pier was Tollesbury Pier Station (open 1907-1921, see EHER 45664) used by the Kelvedon, Tiptree and Tollesbury Pier Light Railway (EHER 45184), which ran from Kelvedon. <3> <4> <5>