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