to be super clear, these piers are placed so people can moor their boats for a couple days, if you look at some of the others, they are actually having a branch to the shore, so you can go have a picknick there. some of them however are free standing, either because of farmers objecting to people camping out on their land, or to create undisturbed area's for birds, so while the pier remained in its place to moore, the landacces (that in some cases used to exist, but not all!) was removed/not replaced when the rest of the pier was