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Maplin Sands

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Maplin Sands is an intertidal area of sandbanks and mudflats in the Thames Estuary off the coast of Essex, England. The place is associated with Alexander Mitchell's screw-pile lighthouse, whose foundation system was tested there in 1838. Screw piles use helical plates to anchor a structure in soft seabed, so the site is relevant to the history of marine and civil engineering as well as to the geography of the estuary.

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