foulness

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The Broomway is a route across flat sands from the shore near Southend-on-Sea to Foulness Island and is home to a Ministry of Defence firing range.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

Foulness, for the most part, wins the day, and thus the beautiful paean, by Duncan and Banquo, to the home of the Macbeths—“a pleasant seat,” where “the air is delicate”—is expunged.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 7, 2015

In East Yorkshire there is a flood alert on the River Foulness and Market Weighton canal.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2012

"Foulness and filth are too sweet and fair for me," said the dark woman; "and I have been too long idle already."

From Trumps by Curtis, George William

For after the sailors could no longer come up the Thames, they came on to the Essex coast, to Harwich and Walton and Clacton, and afterwards to Foulness and Shoebury, to bring off the people.

From The War of the Worlds by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)