Cranberry Inlet (also known as New Inlet or Toms River Inlet) was an

inlet An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea. Overview In marine geogra ...

connecting Barnegat Bay with the Atlantic Ocean in

Ocean County, New Jersey Ocean County is a county located along the Jersey Shore in the south-central portion of the U.S. state of New Jersey. It borders the Atlantic Ocean on the east. Its county seat is Toms River.Squan Beach Squan Beach is the historic name of a barrier spit located on the Jersey Shore of the Atlantic Ocean in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. Since the closing of Cranberry Inlet around 1812,State of New Jerse"Annual report of the State Geologi ...

from Island Beach, both today comprising the

Barnegat Peninsula The Barnegat Peninsula, also known as the Island Beach Peninsula or Barnegat Bay Island and colloquially as "the barrier island", is a long, narrow barrier peninsula located on the Jersey Shore in Ocean County, New Jersey, Ocean County, New Jerse ...

. The inlet was approximately located at the boundary between Ortley Beach and Seaside Heights, nearly opposite the mouth of the Toms River. It was described in 1834 as,

History

In 1767, Cranberry Inlet is mentioned in the boundary description of the legislation creating Dover Township. The former inlet is also mentioned in the act setting Berkeley Township off from Dover Township.P. L. 1875, Chapter 285; State of New JerseySnyder, John P
''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968''
Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 201. Accessed October 22, 2018. In 1874, Former Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly

Edwin Salter The name Edwin means "rich friend". It comes from the Old English elements "ead" (rich, blessed) and "ƿine" (friend). The original Anglo-Saxon form is Eadƿine, which is also found for Anglo-Saxon figures. People * Edwin of Northumbria (die ...

wrote at length about Cranberry Inlet in ''Old Times in Old Monmouth'': Access to the upper part of Barnegat Bay was finally achieved in 1925 with the opening of the

Point Pleasant Canal The Point Pleasant Canal is a canal in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. It was completed in 1925 to connect the Manasquan Inlet and Manasquan River with Bay Head Harbor on the northern end of Barnegat Bay. The canal is part of the Intracoastal Waterwa ...

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History

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