This article describes how the Anglo-Saxon manor of Overton included the valley of the River Test for habitation, pasture and mills as well as chal
Today, Holland Haven is the place where the Holland River (now the Holland Brook) once ran out into the North Sea between Clacton and Frinton in Es
Responsibility for sea defence and drainage in coastal regions since the early thirteenth century had been allocated to ad hoc Commissions
The Holland Brook, sometimes called the Holland River, has been rather overlooked as an important landscape feature of Tendring Hundred (the older
Holland bridge is the most recent bridge to cross the Holland River (or Holland Brook), and the furthest downstream.
Rice bridge is the earliest recorded crossing point on the river now known as the Holland Brook, and one of the furthest inland. It was in existenc
Fan bridge is the second earliest rcorded crossing point on the river now known as Holland Brook (formerly Holland River).
The historic site known as Beaumont Quay is an important survival showing the nature of the small quays and wharves that were once very common and
The Gunfleet was the name of the large estuary fed by the Holland River or brook, which formerly ran into the sea between Frinton and Little Hollan