Site Search. Searching for something Accommodation Search. Add Room. Enter Max Group Size to Search. Things to Do Search. What's On Search. Any date in the future. Shopping Search. Clacton on Sea - 2 Beach Huts for Weekly hire. The first one is a Yellow pastel Beach Hut that is called Seahorse 2. The second one is a double beach hut that has been adapted for disabled access. Cycle around Clacton and Great Bentley.
TripAdvisor Traveller Rating 92 reviews. Jaywick Martello Tower. Jaywick Martello Tower - Geocaching. West Beach, Clacton on sea. Martello Bay, Clacton on sea. Visit our specific region page to learn more about the area, or if you're travelling from the South, check out the top things to do on the South East Coast of England here.
Back to Itinerary Builder. Things to do in Clacton on Sea Why not take the family for a bike ride? There is also a list of family friendly days out in Clacton on Sea on the Visit Essex website here How to get to Clacton on Sea With easy links by road, train, coach, ferry and plane Clacton on Sea is an easily accessible destination.
Similar to this. Probably the most famous Clacton site to have been demolished was the Butlins holiday camp , which opened in , was requisitioned for the war effort a year later, and remained in situ until when it briefly became a theme park, and was then removed to make way for a housing estate.
These are all gone now, knocked down to make way for newer, less characterful buildings. One which does remain is the former Coastguard lookout, which juts out above Marine Parade West, perched on top of a Martello tower. It's now one of the most remarkable pieces of architecture in town, looking something like the haphazard holiday home of Admiral Boom. Doubling up as a meteorological station in Edwardian times, it was used as a children's zoo and tea room for a few years, until it closed in around It currently sits empty, but we hope its next owners restore it to its former glory.
As soon as you step out of Clacton-on-Sea station, at the corner of Skelmersdale Road and Chapman Road there is, what appears to our untrained but insatiably curious eye, a Victorian stinkpipe. Clacton's first electric street lights are now listed, and a row of street lights made by the London Electric Firm, Croydon, are also listed. Enough of the historic buildings and structures, what of the people of Clacton past? Perhaps its most famous, if brief, past resident was Winston Churchill, who made an emergency landing in his sea plane close to Clacton in April The event is commemorated by a plaque outside Greensward Cafe, and Churchill ended up having a fortifying drink in the Royal Hotel now the Wetherspoons mentioned above after the experience.
Churchill wasn't the only one to have plane problems in the area — a plaque in the town's gardens commemorates Flight Officer R F King , who died after crashing into the sea nearby in Sadly, Clacton-on-Sea can also claim the first civilian victims of the second world war on British mainland — a memorial bench on Victoria Road marks the crashing of a German bomber plane in April , killing local couple Mr and Mrs Gill, as well as its German crew.
Clacton-on-Sea has earned a place in the cultural history books too. Jennifer Worth, the real-life midwife behind Call The Midwife was born in the town in In , The Pet Shop Boys chose the town to film their music video Always on my Mind , with the pier making an appearance in the background of a few shots. A post shared by Clacton Pier clactonpier. Named after the existing town of Great Clacton a little way inland, the resort's existence has a lot to do with London.
The Woolwich Steam Packet company, which owned the PS Waverley, mentioned above, invested in the development of the resort , and ran paddle steamers from Tower Pier in London to Clacton Pier to allow Londoners to holiday there, in much the same way that Londoners could once catch the tube to Southend.
Clacton is celebrating its th anniversary in several ways, the most noticeable of which is the new observation wheel on the seafront. It'll initially be installed out the front of the pier, before being relocated to a permanent spot on the pier. Clacton-on-Sea is approximately a two-hour train ride from Liverpool Street station. Take a look at these other seaside towns and islands to visit in Essex including neighbouring Walton-on-the-Naze , and castles in Essex.
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