SHOEBURYNESS  , a promontory on the

coast of Essex, England, the point at which the coast-line trends north-eastward from the estuary of the Thames . It gives name to a school of gunnery, where officers are instructed and experiments carried out . The railway station (39 M . E. from London, the terminus of the London, Tilbury and Southend railway) bears the same name, but the parish is South Shoebury; North Shoebury is a parish situated nearer to Southend-on-Sea . The church of St Andrew retains some ornate Norman work, but is mainly a Perpendicular reconstruction . On the seaward side of the Ness there is a large ancient earthwork which is attributed to the Norsemen through a reference in the Saxon Chronicle (894) under the name Sceobrig . The parish is in the S.E. parliamentary division of the country . Pop . (1901) 4081 .