Coastwalk

Mersea Strood East → Wivenhoe

Distance: 13.4 miles
Ascent: 167 metres
Duration: 4 hours 3 minutes

Worried about water
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The Strood is the causeway that links Mersea Island with the mainland. The thing you need to know about it is that it floods at high tide. You should bear this in mind when parking your car at the start of a walk from The Strood. It was a tense bus-ride back for me from Colchester as I overheard passengers talking of the particularly high tide and how the water had "pretty much reached" the pub that I'd parked outside.