Kings Fleet & Felixstowe Ferry

These are now the only vestiges of the vast harbour, known as Gosford Haven, which occupied the south bank of the river in the Middle Ages before about 1500. It extended through creeks and marshes right as far as Hemley, and was known as King's Fleet because it sheltered the warships of medieval kings. Local history tells us that Edward III assembled his expeditionary fleet within this harbour in 1346.