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Foulness

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Foulness

Island at the mouth of the River Crouch, in Essex, England, 15 km/9 mi east of Southend-on-Sea, and connected with the mainland by road; population (2001) 212. Foulness has long been used as a firing range by the army.

In the late 1960s, it was proposed that Foulness and the adjacent Maplin Sands should become the site of London's third airport. In 1973, this plan was shelved in favour of Stansted, to the northeast of the capital.



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For after the sailors could no longer come up the Thames, they came on to the Essex coast, to Harwich and Walton and Clacton, and afterwards to Foulness and Shoebury, to bring off the people.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
I was only glad to be quit of the foulness of the Beast People.
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I think that a good deal of its foulness was lost upon me, but I certainly understood that it would not do to present it to an American public just as it was, in the translation which I presently planned to make.
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