A beautiful island community that gets cut off from the mainland by the sea is tucked away on England's east coast.
If you've spent much time exploring the east coast of our isles, you may well have ambled down the record breakingly long pier at Southend, sunned yourself on the sands at Lowestoft or gazed up from Queensferry north of Edinburgh at the amazing Fourth Bridge.
One placed you'd be forgiven for missing on your adventures is Mersea Island, a particularly intriguing coastal spot that doesn't get as much attention as it should, Essex Live reports.
