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| | Guardian | Welcome to Gormandy |
 | | The natural boundary between them, I've argued, is the A12 London to Colchester road - a dividing line, this, not just of culture but of geology: boulder clay, and the pretty landscapes that go with it, north of the road, and, appropriately, London clay to the south. |
 | | Wivenhoe, which I understand to be the Hampstead of Colchester, clearly belonged to the north, while some readers submitted a moving case for including within old Essex the serene, green and delightful Dengie peninsula and especially the ruined 7th-century church on the shore east of Bradwell-on-Sea. |
 | | A new county should be created to the south of the A12, perhaps with its county town at Southend-on-Sea; evoking the spirit of that Boudicca de nos jours, the feisty Thatcherite MP for Billericay, Teresa Gorman, it might be called Gormandy. |
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