Southend Pier
Southend Pier stretches out an incredible 2.14 km into the Thames Estuary, making it the longest pleasure pier in the world. The coast at Southend consists of large mudflats, so the sea is never very deep even at full tide which meant large boats were unable to stop at Southend near to the beach and no boats at all were able to stop at low tide. In 1830 a 600-foot (180 m) wooden pier was opened. However the pier was still too short to be usable at low tide, so by 1833 it had been extended to three times its length and by 1848 was the longest pier in Europe at 7,000 feet (2,100 m). (Southend-on-Sea, England)
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