The Mersea Island community website, aimed to provide information about Mersea Island including Events, local Businesses, Tide Tables, Jobs, News & Articles, Places to Stay and Places to Visit. 

The Mersea Island Museum is an independent museum established in 1976 and occupying purpose-built premises in the centre of West Mersea, just to the east of the Parish Church. The traditional local activities of fishing, oystering, wild fowling and boat building are represented. The reconstruction within the museum of a typical weather-boarded fisherman's cottage provides an interior display centred on a Victorian coal-fired kitchen range, with adjoining facilities for washing clothes using old-fashioned manual equipment.

West Mersea Town Regatta takes place on Mersea Island in Essex, and has been running since 1838. A Regatta Programme containing all of the Regatta details including the Sailing Entry Form, along with numerous interesting articles of local events past and present is available from a number of Mersea shops for about six weeks prior to the Regatta.

The Pioneer Sailing Trust was set up in 1999 to restore back to sailing condition the last remaining 1st Class Essex Skillinger Smack Pioneer. She was another example of Britain's Maritime Heritage left to perish. By viewing this site it is possible to follow her progress from the mud of West Mersea in Essex towards her first sea trials.

Founded in 1899 the West Mersea Yacht Club is renowned for its racing and cruising programmes as well as for the warm welcome in its comfortable Clubhouse. West Mersea provides a pleasant sheltered anchorage with immediate access to the sailing waters of the River Blackwater, Thames Estuary and North Sea.

Join the Dabchicks Sailing Club, West Mersea for sailing and social events.

Centre for Outdoor Learning: 
Outdoor activities available this season include assault course & caving, adventure course, bridge building, pioneering, plumbers nightmare, high ropes course, climbing and abseiling towers, team challenges aerial runway, and access to the beach for water sports and seashore studies. In all we offer more than 20 activities, all run by qualified instructors.

Keep up to date with what's happening on Mersea Island

Mother Nature doesn't always pay attention to the tide times and tidal height predictions - meaning that sometimes the Strood is passable at high tide when the tide table says it shouldn't be and vice versa. Hence StroodCam.

The Mersea Island Society was formed over 40 years ago:-
“To preserve, safeguard and promote the characteristics of Mersea Island for the benefit of all, to arrange open discussion whenever it appears necessary to obtain a consensus of public opinion, to provide opportunities to gain factual knowledge from lectures, visits and discussion.”