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Canvey Island

civil parish and reclaimed island in the Thames estuary in Essex, England
Place town Q1033978

Facts

15 properties
Instance of
town, civil parish, river island[5][6]
Country
United Kingdom[3]
Official website
www.canveyisland-tc.gov.uk[13]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.525°, 0.573°[11]
Area
+18.45[18]
Authority
Canvey Island Town Council[12]
Historic county
Essex[19]
Local dialing code
01268[9]
Located in or next to body of water
River Thames[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Castle Point[2]
Native label
Canvey Island[17]
OS grid reference
TQ789829[10]
Population
38k (37k–38k, n=3)[14][15][16]
Postal code
SS8[7]
Said to be the same as
Canvey Island[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en Canvey Island ar جزيرة كانفي fa جزیرخ کانوی fr Canvey Island fr île Canvey he קאנוויי איילנד ja キャンベイ島 ja キャンヴェイ・アイランド ja キャンベイ・アイランド ko 캔비 섬 ru Остров Канви tr Canvey Adası vi Đảo Cavey zh 肯維島 zh-hans 康维岛 zh-hant 康維島
🔖 Identifiers · 37
VIAF cluster ID
11145424493686831482, 100148570742324312629
Library of Congress authority ID
nb2009030744, sh87006022
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Canvey Island OSM map 2010.jpg ↗
BBC News topic ID
cgmxj6eyp49t
BBC Things ID
38e9e300-1f56-4591-acec-8b34ce8b2cb1
BabelNet ID
03265568n
Curlie ID
Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Essex/Canvey_Island/
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Canvey-Island
FAST ID
1240557
FactGrid item ID
Wikidata item
Freebase ID
/m/02gkz1
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2591730
Show all 37 identifiers +25
GSS code (2011)
E04003950
GeoNames ID
2.7M (2.7M–7.9M, n=3)
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1028749, 1006705
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Canvey_Island
IdRef ID
133610438
KEPN ID
Essex/Canvey Island
MusicBrainz area ID
abbac9a8-7ef2-4b7b-b06d-46618f3f5433
NE.se ID
canvey-island
National Library of Israel ID (old)
000784422
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007531906005171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2739836
Quora topic ID
Canvey
Survey of English Place-Names ID
532858beb47fc40a98000bdc, 532858eeb47fc40a98000db7
TOID
4000000.1B (4000000.1B–7000000.0B, n=3)
Topic's main category
Category:Canvey Island
Trismegistos Geo ID
15361
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
8947
UN/LOCODE
GBCAN
Vision of Britain place ID
1241
Vision of Britain unit ID
10244250
Wellcome Collection concept ID
wf5ktt7g
Who's on First ID
101853535
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Island", "CanveyIsland"]
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJqvWrYj7FyVXPJTtVVjYP
Yale LUX ID
place/82416e9f-9792-4d63-bb78-7d194f1908ca

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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/London 2026-09-26 T/ISL · GB GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
Transform
4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
People born here 5
Wilko Johnson, Billy Knott, Frank Saul, Tim Whitnall, Ty Gooden
Instance of 3
town, civil parish, river island
Contained subdivisions 1
Canvey Island F.C.
Country 1
United Kingdom
Located in or next to body of water 1
River Thames
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Castle Point
Located in time zone 1
UTC±00:00
Named after 1
Canvey Island F.C.
People who died here 1
Peter Green
Residents 1
Jessica Warner-Judd
Topic's main category 1
Category:Canvey Island
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Canvey Island
← Headquarters location 1
Canvey Island F.C.
← Location of formation 1
Eddie and the Hot Rods
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Summary

Canvey Island is a town[1].

Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Canvey Island include it F.C.[20], an association football club[21], in United Kingdom[22], founded in 1926[23].

Why It Matters

Entities named for it include it F.C.[20], an association football club[21], in United Kingdom[22], founded in 1926[23].

Related Entities

Peter Green River Thames United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Chalmd · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OpenStreetMap relation ID → 2739836
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ OpenStreetMap relation ID: 2739836"
  2. 10w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48912|batch #48912]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  3. 26w ago · Ikan · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in or next to body of water → River Thames
    Authority → Canvey Island Town Council
    Population → {'amount': '+37000'}, {'amount': '+38327'}, {'amount': '+38170'}
    VIAF cluster ID → 11145424493686831482, 100148570742324312629
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Wolfram Language entity code: Entity["Island", "CanveyIsland"], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257262|batch #257262]]"
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