The Nore is a long bank of sand and silt running along the south-centre of the final narrowing of the Thames Estuary, England. Its south-west is the very narrow Nore Sand. Just short of the Nore's easternmost point where it fades into the channels it has a notable point once marked by a lightship on the line where the estuary of the Thames nominally becomes the North Sea. A lit buoy today stands on this often map-marked divisor: between Havengore Creek in east Essex and Warden Point on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.
Lightship Nore
Admiralty Chart No 1975 Kentish Knock and the Naze to The Nore, published 1934
The Thames Estuary is where the River Thames meets the waters of the North Sea, in the south-east of Great Britain.
The half of the estuary that lies east of its narrow Tideway-named part, by the Operational Land Imager
London Stone, Yantlet Creek
Wind farms in the estuary, in this case the London Array.
The Blackwater Estuary, on the Essex coast, in the northern part of the Greater Thames Estuary. Mersea Island is on the right.