Canvey Island

Canvey Island, the Beach c1955
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection.

White's Directory of Essex 1848

CANVEY ISLAND, is divided among eight parishes, and has 277 inhabitants, and about 3600 acres of rich grazing >>more.

More local history sources

Books featuring Canvey Island from Abebooks. Just click the logo. The search terms are already formatted for Canvey Island.

Search for Canvey Island census returns at ancestry.co.uk.

1841 England Census | 1851 England Census | 1861 England Census
1871 England Census | 1881 England Census | 1891 England Census
1901 England Census

The Village, Canvey Island
Reproduced courtesy of Footsteps.
Quality reproductions of old photographs.

The Essex Record Office: an excellent starting point for research. The ERO has an online catalogue by the name of SEAX and a database of Parish Records held in the ERO. Access to both via their home page.

Website with old post cards, photographs, newpaper clippings, on the history of Canvey Island.

Two websites with some brief information on the history of Canvey Island Canvey Island in words and pictures | Island Net.

Web site with some history of Canvey Island, census returns and photographs.

Canvey Community Archive with some history of the Island.

Canvey Island suffered badly during the flood of January 1953. Essex Police website article as to how it affected Canvey Island.

1881 Ordnance Survey Map from the British History Online web site (Essex: 077, Ordnance Survey 1:10,560: Epoch 1.0).

Ordnance Survey - type the place name in the gazetteer search box to view detailed map of Canvey Island.

Images of England web site which has a photographic record of England's listed buildings - from the grandest house to the humblest cottage. Enter the town or village in the search box. Photographs are accompanied by a detailed architectural description of the property.