Canvey

In 2005-06, Leigh again escaped the drop despite finishing in the relegation places, because of Canvey Island's resignation from the league above.

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It was second only to Canvey Island in the number who died.

Letters: Talented Mr Ripley 2011

By now the story should be familiar – problems at Canvey Island and Scarborough came to the rescue in 2005-06, Boston United did likewise in 2006-07 and the liquidation of Halifax Town in 2007-08 made it a hat-trick of unlikely escapes.

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But it is also land in transition: the rare wildlife has been protected by the designation as a site of special scientific interest, and soon Canvey Wick will become a nature reserve.

Country Diary: Canvey Wick, Essex 2011

The history of Championship Manager plus pre-season outings to Canvey island and the the Lewes Lunatic Fringe.

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Canvey was a rat-faced boy with handsome, wide-open eyes, affording a strange impression of cunning and frankness mingled.

When Last I Died Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1941

But I dessay 'e could potter about with the dam' tub round about as far as Canvey, if 'e keeps it out of the wash of the steamers.

London River 1915

Canvey; and on one, at the time of the writer's last visit, two fine old

The Naturalist on the Thames 1882

It is ten o'clock in the day; the bawleys have returned from the fishing grounds, and scores of them have anchored in the Ray -- a deep stretch of water lying between the spit of sand that extends from the end of Canvey

A Chapter of Adventures 1867

Melvyn Windebank, Canvey Island, Essex, 22/09/2011 18:18 The only reason anyone votes for Boris is to keep the wastrel Livingstone out.

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