Stow Maries

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Stow Maries is a village and civil parish in the English county of Essex.

Stow Maries is located on the western (inland) end of the Dengie peninsula and forms part of the Maldon district.

An airfield was established at Stow Maries during the First World War for the Royal Flying Corps; this was not used in the Second World War but, nonetheless, was bombed by the Luftwaffe^[1]. Stow Maries had a halt on the long-forgotten railway line that connected what is now South Woodham Ferrers and Maldon, this is now used by Essex Wildlife Trust ^[2].

Stow Maries has nothing in it, apart from a pub; The Prince of Wales, which is really popular with people from all over the county. The WW1 airfield still has all of its buildings intact, with the original windows still in place (although some of them have been a bit smashed over time). The buildings are used to store farm vehicles.

The village has roughly 200 inhabitants, and is surrounded by Cold Norton and South Woodham Ferrers (by road), it is also near to North Fambridge, Latchingdon and many other villages/towns in the dengie.

It has a table tennis team, which trains in the Smythe Hall (the village hall), many different footpaths, and the old railway line, which is really good to cycle along.