Dengie is a scattered village and

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in the Maldon district of

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, England, with a population of 119 at the 2011 census. It is about 4 km NE of the nearest town (and railway station), Southminster, on the slightly higher ground to the north of Dengie Marshes. Dengie nature reserve is about 5 km to the north-east. It gives its name to the Dengie peninsula and

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and to the Dengie Special Protection Area. The place-name "Dengie" is first attested in a manuscript of between 709 and 745, where it appears as ''Deningei''. It appears as ''Daneseia'' in the

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of 1086. The name means "Dene's island" or "the island of Dene's people". The 14th-century church of St James is the parish church. Dengie Flats, offshore, was used as a bombing and strafing range by the RAF and USAAF during the Second World War, and also attracted many crash-landing aircraft bound to or from the nearby RAF Bradwell Bay airfield. Between 1942 and 1945 Dengie was also the site of a 10-cm Coast Defence radar station used to warn of enemy ships and low-flying aircraft and doodlebugs.RAF record books at National Archive; USAF Missing in Action records;J P Foynes "Battle of the East Coast 1939-1945" Dengie Marshes were once used to film an episode of ''

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