Canvey Island
Canvey Island, Castle Point, Essex, Eng.
Castle Point
district, England, United Kingdom
Castle Point, borough (district), administrative and historic county of Essex, eastern England, on the north side of the River Thames near its mouth. Castle Point is a low-lying borough of tidal inlets and reclaimed land protected by embankments and dikes. The parishes (towns) of Canvey Island to the south and Benfleet on the mainland to the north experienced rapid residential growth in the 1960s and ’70s. Canvey Island, near London, developed into a popular seaside...