 Southend Pier in England is the longest pleasure pier in the world, at 1.34 miles (2158 m) A pier is a raised walkway over water, supported by widely spread piles or pillars. The lighter structure of a pier allows tides and currents to flow almost unhindered, whereas the more solid foundations of a quay or the closely-spaced piles of a wharf can act as breakwaters, and are consequently more liable to silting. Piers can range in size and complexity from a simple lightweight wooden structure to major structures extended over a mile out to sea. Piers are the same as docks, which would be found in lakes or on rivers, it is the standard terminology used. For the type of foundation, see Deep foundation. ...
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Southend pier from the land Southend Pier is a major landmark in Southend-on-Sea. ...
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A quay, pronounced key, kay, is a wharf or bank where ships and other vessels are loaded. ...
Metung Wharf on Bancroft Bay, Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, Australia A wharf is a fixed platform, commonly on pilings, roughly parallel to and alongside navigable water, where ships are loaded and unloaded. ...
Piers have been built for several different purposes, and because these different purposes have distinct regional variances, the term pier tends to have different nuances of meaning in different parts of the world. Thus in North America and Australia, where many ports were, until recently, built on the multiple pier model, the term tends to imply a current or former cargo-handling facility. In Europe however, where ports have tended to use basins and river-side quays rather than piers, the term is principally associated with the image of a Victorian cast iron pleasure pier. North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ...
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The Victorian era of the United Kingdom marked the height of the British Industrial Revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ...
Cast iron usually refers to grey cast iron, but can mean any of a group of iron-based alloys containing more than 2% carbon (alloys with less carbon are carbon steel by definition). ...
Types of pier
Piers can be categorized into different groupings, depending on the principal purpose. It should be realized that there is, nonetheless, a significant amount of overlap. For example, pleasure piers often also allowed for the docking of pleasure steamers and other similar craft, whilst working piers have often be converted to leisure use after being rendered obsolete by changes in cargo-handling technology.
Working piers Working piers were built for the handling of passengers and cargo onto and off ships. Working piers themselves fall into two different groups. Longer individual piers are often found at ports with large tidal ranges, with the pier stretching far enough off shore to reach deep water at low tide. Such piers provided an economical alternative to impounded docks where cargo volumes were low, or where specialist bulk cargos were handled such as at coal piers. An early example of an individual working pier is Ryde Pier, opened in 1814 to serve ferries between the English mainland and the Isle of Wight. This article is about tides in the Earths oceans. ...
Aerial view looking east of Virginian Railway coal piers at Sewells Point on Hampton Roads near Norfolk, Virginia. ...
Ryde Pier is an early 19th century pier serving the town of Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. ...
The ferryboat Dongan Hills, filled with commuters, about to dock at a New York City pier, circa 1945. ...
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The other form of working pier, often called the finger pier, was built at ports with smaller tidal ranges. Here the principal advantage was to give a greater available quay length for ships to berth against compared to a linear littoral quayside, and such piers are usually much shorter. Typically each pier would carry a single transit shed the length of the pier, with ships berthing bow or stern in to the shore. Some major ports consisted of large numbers of such piers lining the foreshore, classic examples being the Hudson River frontage of New York, or the Embarcadero in San Francisco. The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk in Mahican or as the Lenape Native Americans called it in Unami, Muhheakantuck, is a river that runs through the eastern portion of New York State and, along its southern terminus, demarcates the border between the states of New York and...
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The advent of container shipping, with its need for large container handling spaces adjacent to the shipping berths, has made working piers obsolete for the handling of general cargo, although some still survive for the handling of passenger ships or bulk cargos. Many working piers have been demolished, or remain derelict, but others have been recycled as pleasure piers. The best known example of this is Pier 39 in San Francisco. Containers in the port of Kotka (Finland) on the Baltic Sea. ...
Sea lions on Pier 39 A musician performs at Pier 39. ...
Pleasure piers Pleasure piers were first built in the United Kingdom, during the 19th century. At that time the introduction of the railways for the first time permitted mass tourism to dedicated seaside resorts. However the large tidal ranges at many such resorts meant that for much of the day, the sea was not visible from dry land. The pleasure pier was the resorts' answer, permitting holiday makers to promenade over and alongside the sea at all times. The longest Pleasure pier in the world is at Southend-on-sea, Essex, and extends 2,158 m into the Thames estuary. The longest pier on the West Coast of the Unites States is the Oceanside Pier. Southend pier from the land Southend Pier is a major landmark in Southend-on-Sea. ...
Southend-on-Sea is a resort town in Essex, England. ...
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The Thames Estuary is a large estuary where the River Thames flows into the North Sea. ...
The Oceanside Pier, located in Oceanside, California was first built in 1888. ...
Pleasure piers often include other amusements and theatres as part of the attraction. Such a pier may be open air, closed, or partly open, partly closed. Sometimes a pier has two decks. Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ...
Early pleasure piers were of wooden construction, with iron structures being introduced with the construction in 1855 of Margate Jetty, in Margate, England. One of the oldest iron piers still remaining is in Southport, also in England and dates from 1860. For other uses, see Wood (disambiguation). ...
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Margate is a town in Thanet, Kent, England (population about 60,000). ...
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Fishing piers Many piers are built for the purpose of providing land locked anglers access to fishing grounds that are otherwise inaccessible.
Piers of the world See the List of piers article for details of piers in countries across the world. The pier at Clacton-on-sea This article contains a list of piers throughout the world. ...
United Kingdom The first recorded pier in the UK was Ryde Pier, opened in 1814 on the Isle of Wight, as a working pier to allow ferries to and from the mainland to berth. It is still used for this purpose today. Ryde Pier is an early 19th century pier serving the town of Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. ...
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In their heyday, the UK had many pleasure piers. These were found in most fashionable seaside resorts during the Victorian era. There are still a significant number of piers of architectural merit still standing, although some have been lost. The most well known piers are perhaps the two at Brighton in East Sussex and the three at Blackpool in Lancashire, while the longest is at Southend-on-Sea in Essex at 1.34 miles (2,158 m) long. Two piers, Brighton's now derelict West Pier and Clevedon Pier, are Grade 1 listed. Birnbeck Pier in Weston-super-Mare is the only pier in the world that is linked to an island. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...
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Southend-on-Sea is a resort town in Essex, England. ...
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West Pier concert hall, 1995 The West Pier on 11th Janurary 2003, showing the collapse of the concert hall, before the fire. ...
Clevedon Pier is a seaside pier in the town of Clevedon, on the English side of the estuary of the River Severn. ...
Birnbeck Pier, Weston-super-Mare Birnbeck Pier is a pier in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, England. ...
Weston-super-Mare is an English seaside resort town in North Somerset, population 65,000 (1991 estimate). ...
The National Piers Society gives a figure of 55 surviving seaside piers in England and Wales.[1] The National Piers Society is a registered charity in the United Kingdom dedicated to promoting and sustaining interest in the preservation and continued enjoyment of seaside piers. ...
Statistics - The oldest cast iron pier in the world is Gravesend Town Pier, in Kent, UK. The pier opened in 1834.[2]
- The oldest recognized seaside pier in the UK is that at Ryde on the Isle of Wight, which opened in 1814.
- The longest pleasure pier in the world is Southend, with a length of 1.34 miles (2158 m).
- The shortest UK pier is now Cleethorpes, at just 335 ft (102 m).
- The UK pier with the biggest height above the sea is Weston Super Mare Birnbeck.
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Breakwaters create safe harbors, but can also trap sediment moving along the coast. ...
A dock is an area of water between two piers or alongside a pier, forming a chamber used for building or repairing one ship. ...
Alternate meanings: See Jetty (web server) Alternate meanings: See Jettying in buildings The term jetty, derived from the French jetie, and therefor signifying something thrown out, is applied to a variety of structures employed in river, dock and maritime works which are generally carried out in pairs from river banks...
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References - ^ Piers. National Piers Society (2006). Retrieved on March 27, 2006.
- ^ The oldest surviving cast iron pier in the world. BBC. Retrieved on March 26, 2006.
- Turner, K., (1999), Pier Railways and Tramways of the British Isles, The Oakwood Press, No. LP60, ISBN 0-85361-541-1
The National Piers Society is a registered charity in the United Kingdom dedicated to promoting and sustaining interest in the preservation and continued enjoyment of seaside piers. ...
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