England is (in this case) not an island and not the last stop before it, but part of the North Frisian municipality of Nordstrand. According to tradition, the name should derive from the "narrow country" through which it was difficult to navigate. Because in 1657 a port was built on the Siel near England. Through the Engländer Loch, a creek in the mud flats, a connection via the Heverstrom to Husum was possible. The English port existed for more than 200 years, only after the embankment of the Morsum-Kooges in 1866 did the English settlement move into the interior of the island of Nordstrand. A new harbour, Süderhafen, was built on the Morsum-Koog dyke at the mouth of the Engländer Loch in 1866/67.
There are hardly any traces left of the English port today, only a depression to the east of the settlement between the Engländer Loch and the dyke of the Elisabeth-Sophien-Koogs gives an idea of the location.