{"id":34893,"date":"2022-03-25T12:10:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T12:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/uk\/book\/111-places-in-essex-that-you-shouldnt-miss\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T18:52:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:52:52","slug":"111-places-in-essex-that-you-shouldnt-miss","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/uk\/book\/111-places-in-essex-that-you-shouldnt-miss\/","title":{"rendered":"111 Places in Essex That You Shouldn’t Miss"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Good evening. I’m from Essex, in case you couldn’t tell.” Thus spoke the inimitable punk poet of the flat lands, Ian Dury, in 1977. Few other parts of England have so distinctive an identity, sent up by a hundred comedians since the 1990 birth of Essex Man, epitomised by the rise of the ‘Mockney’ radio celeb, and incarcerated through their hideous offspring in TV’s The Only Way is Essex<\/em>. It’s not just an accent, it’s a way of life, a culture shaped by the Diaspora from London generation after generation, the lure of the sea and powerful Thames estuary, the encroaching of the waters from innumerable creeks and inlets, the dream seaside resort of Southend, the longing for the most succulent of seafood indulgences, the delicious countryside of copses and boughs painted by Constable, but also the threat of invasion by hostile forces repelled by Britain’s most formidable forts. It’s Essex. You can tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Essex: More than just the overspill from crowded London, the happy home of those lured by the sea, sand and Shoeburyness.
Basildon – Birthplace of Essex Man | Basildon
\nWelcome to Bas Vegas | 10
\nDepeche Who? | Basildon
\n‘Leave in Silence’ | 12
\nWeirdness at Wat Tyler | Basildon
\nPleasant, and not too revolting | 14
\nEssex’s Noisiest Church | Bowers Gifford
\nStop the service, there’s a train! | 16
\nGant Around Braintree | Braintree
\nA mess of pottage | 18
\nSilver End Model Village | Braintree
\nWhen I’m making windows | 20
\nKelvedon Hatch Bunker | Brentwood
\nYour air is beautiful tonight – atomic | 22
\nTOWIE’s Sugar Hut | Brentwood
\nSurely there must be another way for Essex? | 24
\nTiles of the Shipwrecked | Brightlingsea
\nTributes to the sank of cinque | 26
\nThe Hostage Windows | Broxted
\nStained glass celebrates freedom from captivity | 28
\nLe Corbusier-Styled Yacht Club | Burnham-on-Crouch
\nTowards a new architecture | 30
\nArt Deco Island Icon | Canvey Island
\nMighty modernist masterpiece | 32
\nThe Chassidim of Canvey | Canvey Island
\nBe fruitful and multiply | 34
\nDr Feelgood’s Surgery | Canvey Island
\nThey did it right | 36
\nDutch Cottages of 1618 | Canvey Island
\nNether nether land | 38
\nLast Degaussing Station | Canvey Island
\nStill in the loop | 40
\nLobster Smack | Canvey Island
\nSmuggle yourself inside | 42
\nGraham Gooch to Bat | Chelmsford
\nStill not out | 44
\nOldest Wireless Factory | Chelmsford
\nRadio, Live Transmission | 46
\nDickens’ Maypole Pub | Chigwell
\nSheesh, it’s now a kebab joint! | 48
\nHouse on Legs | Clacton
\nOn our block, all of the guys call her flamingo | 50
\nJaywick Shanty Town | Clacton
\nForlorn and forgotten | 52
\nMartello Tower Art Centre | Clacton
\nArt attack is the best form of defence | 54
\nBalkerne Gate | Colchester
\nEntrance to England’s longest Roman town wall | 56
\nUni of the Hard Left | Colchester
\nSay you want a revolution | 58
\nThe Witchfinder’s Castle | Colchester
\nHeads, you lose. Tales, he wins | 60
\nConstable Country
\nMost arresting views | 62
\nCrashed Plane Memorial | Dengie Peninsula
\nIt’s got its nose to the ground | 64
\nLonely Church by the Sea | Dengie Peninsula
\nOn this wall I will build my church | 66
\nPetrified Forest at Furze | Dengie Peninsula
\nIt’s coming, it’s in the trees! | 68
\nCrass’ Country Commune | Epping Forest
\nHow does it feel…? | 70
\nCricket on Top of the M25 | Epping Forest
\nJust don’t hit a six | 72
\nThe Gilwell Oak | Epping Forest
\nBe prepared for this scouts’ honour of a tree | 74
\nPole Hill Meridian Marker | Epping Forest
\nIt divides the country, not just the forest | 76
\nWoody Den for the Famous | Epping Forest
\nAnd it’s good old country comfort | 78
\nBilly Bragg’s A 13 | Essex
\nRoute 666 | 80
\nPeasants’ Revolt Memorial | Fobbing
\nWat a time to march on London | 82
\nThe Broomway | Foulness Island
\nBritain’s deadliest path | 84
\nFancy Frinton Beach Huts | Frinton-on-Sea
\nSo posh even the dog poo smells sweet | 86
\nSunshine Homes by the Sea | Frinton-on-Sea
\nUtopia nearly realised | 88
\nThe Council House Palace | Great Dunmow
\nIn Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome… | 90
\nRoyalty’s Abandoned Fort | Hadleigh
\nCastle near the sand | 92
\nThe Salvation Army Farm | Hadleigh
\n‘Salvation à la mode and a cup of tea’ | 94
\nHarlow – Sculpture Town | Harlow
\nWhere the whole town is a museum of stone | 96
\nThe Lawn | Harlow
\nBritain’s first residential tower block | 98
\nAnti-Invasion Fort | Harwich
\nThey fought long to save the fortress and the port | 100
\nMayflower Captain’s House | Harwich
\nPilgrims, strangers sailing from a wearisome land | 102
\nThe Curiosity Cabinet | Leigh-on-Sea
\nReaders of a squeamish disposition look away now | 104
\nLee Brilleaux Bench | Leigh-on-Sea
\nYou got me on milk and alcohol | 106
\nOld Leigh Fish Stalls | Leigh-on-Sea
\nWhat’s your poisson? | 108
\nTwo Tree Island | Leigh-on-Sea
\nFirst there is a tree then another, yes there is | 110
\nThe Bible Murals Church | Little Braxted
\n‘Overlay the walls with gold and graved cherubims’ | 112
\nThe PitStop | Little Hallingbury
\nOi! Who do you think you are, Stirling Moss? | 114
\nZeppelin Village | Little Wigborough
\nWhat was and should never have been | 116
\nSimon Beck’s Slag Heap | London Essex, Beckton
\nAprès ski, le déluge | 118
\nBiggest UK Council Estate | London Essex, Becontree
\nEnnui east of the East End | 120
\nFord’s | London Essex, Dagenham
\n‘Any color so long as it is black’ | 122
\nItchycoo Park | London Essex, Gants Hill
\nIt’s all too beautiful | 124
\nTube Tunnel Plane Factory | London Essex, Gants Hill
\nAirtight manufactory | 126
\nThe IRA Man’s Church | London Essex, Leytonstone
\n‘We Ourselves’ | 128
\nNo Motorway Protest Road | London Essex, Leytonstone
\nJust a slip of a road | 130
\nThe Station to Nowhere | London Essex, North Woolwich
\nA bit of Essex in Kent, or the other way round? | 132
\nThe Thames Barrier | London Essex, Silvertown
\nBefore the Flood | 134
\nBoleyn Tavern | London Essex, Upton Park
\nNot Anne Boleyn’s local | 136
\nThe Doctor Who Shop | London Essex, Upton Park
\nIt’s like the Tardis in there | 138
\nWorld Champions | London Essex, Upton Park
\nFake Jules Rimet still gleaming | 140
\nThe Ruined Village Green | London Essex, Wanstead
\nGoing back to its roots | 142
\nAnti-Air War Memorial | London Essex, Woodford
\nAir war, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing | 144
\nChurchill Usually Defaced | London Essex, Woodford
\nWe will wipe the graffiti. We will never surrender | 146
\nThe Gypsy Stone | London Essex, Woodford
\nGypsies, champs and leaves | 148
\nMagnificent Maldon | Maldon
\nWorth its salt | 150
\nOldest UK Battlefield | Maldon
\nByrhtnoth the Vanquished | 152
\nA House for Essex | Manningtree
\nFairy eccentric | 154
\nThe Manningtree Tree | Manningtree
\nOld Knobbley | 156
\nTwin Towers of Mistley | Manningtree
\nDidn’t there used to be a church here? | 158
\nShakespeare Tempest Isle | Mersea Island
\nSuch stuff as dreams are not made on | 160
\nGreensted-juxta-Ongar | Ongar
\nUK’s oldest wooden church | 162
\nMost Obscure Tube Station | Ongar
\n‘Theydon Bois on guitar’ | 164
\nBull’s Folly | Pentlow
\nMum and dad: is this right? | 166
\nKeith Flint’s Pub | Pleshey
\nMine’s a firestarter! | 168
\nThe Pink Toothbrush | Rayleigh
\n‘I’m a pink toothbrush, you’re a blue toothbrush’ | 170
\nOsea Island | River Blackwater
\nExclusively yours | 172
\nGeorgia Founder’s Grave | Romford, Cranham
\nAn old stone vault that keeps Georgia on our minds | 174
\nAir Control Tower Des Res | Saffron Walden
\nNot such a plane property | 176
\nTemple of Concord | Saffron Walden
\nArrive before you leave | 178
\nTown of Mazes | Saffron Walden
\nNo need for a labyrinth when the universe is one | 180
\nMinistry of Defence Beach | Shoeburyness
\nDanger of death – really! | 182
\nPort of London Marker | Southend-on-Sea
\nThat’s your limit! | 184
\nSurviving Mulberry Harbour | Southend-on-Sea
\nBeware – World War II hardware in the sea | 186
\nThree Clocks o’Clock | Southend-on-Sea
\nMaybe better to ask a policeman | 188
\nTown to City – at last! | Southend-on-Sea
\nIt took a tragedy | 190
\nWorld’s Longest Pier | Southend-on-Sea
\nPeerless | 192
\nAncient Aerodrome | Stow Maries
\nWe have clearance, Clarence | 194
\nThe Cathedral of Essex | Thaxted
\nFor St John the Baptist, St Mary and St Laurence | 196
\nThaxted Guildhall | Thaxted
\nMedieval masterpiece and Morris Men | 198
\nGrave of Jack the Ripper? | Thorpe-le-Soken
\nThe sceptre shan’t depart from Judah until Shiloh | 200
\nAmazon’s Depot | Tilbury
\nDeliver yourself to their door | 202
\nBata-Ville Shoe City | Tilbury
\nThe sole of Tilbury | 204
\nEmpire Windrush Landing Point | Tilbury
\nThis is my country | 206
\nTilbury Docks | Tilbury
\n‘By Thames to All People of the World’ | 208
\nTilbury Fort | Tilbury
\nRedoubtable repellent | 210
\nWells Coates Sunspan Home | Tilbury
\nPick it up and take it away with you | 212
\nLayer Marney Tower | Tiptree
\nTallest Tudor turrets | 214
\nTiptree Jam Museum | Tiptree
\nJam today – and tomorrow | 216
\nRemains of the Old Abbey | Waltham Abbey
\nBring in the body | 218
\nRing Out Wild Bells | Waltham Abbey
\nIn Memoriam | 220
\nRoyal Gunpowder Mills | Waltham Abbey
\nA most explosive entity | 222
\nNaze Tower | Walton-on-the-Naze
\nOn the naze | 224
\nSecret Water | Walton-on-the-Naze
\nArthur Ransome’s children’s classic | 226
\nThe Chapel in the Mall | West Thurrock
\nShop ’til you drop on your knees | 228
\nChurch of Gareth’s Burial | West Thurrock
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Essex: More than just the overspill from crowded London, the happy home of those lured by the sea, sand and Shoeburyness.Basildon – Birthplace of Essex Man | Basildon Welcome to Bas Vegas | 10 Depeche Who? | Basildon ‘Leave in Silence’ | 12 Weirdness at Wat Tyler | Basildon Pleasant, and not too revolting | 14 Essex’s Noisiest Church | Bowers Gifford Stop the service, there’s a train! | 16 Gant Around Braintree | Braintree A mess of pottage | 18 Silver End Model Village | Braintree When I’m making windows | 20 Kelvedon Hatch Bunker | Brentwood Your air is beautiful tonight – atomic | 22 TOWIE’s Sugar Hut | Brentwood Surely there must be another way for Essex? | 24 Tiles of the Shipwrecked | Brightlingsea Tributes to the sank of cinque | 26 The Hostage Windows | Broxted Stained glass celebrates freedom from captivity | 28 Le Corbusier-Styled Yacht Club | Burnham-on-Crouch Towards a new architecture | 30 Art Deco Island Icon | Canvey Island Mighty modernist masterpiece | 32 The Chassidim of Canvey | Canvey Island Be fruitful and multiply | 34 Dr Feelgood’s Surgery | Canvey Island They did it right | 36 Dutch Cottages of 1618 | Canvey Island Nether nether land | 38 Last Degaussing Station | Canvey Island Still in the loop | 40 Lobster Smack | Canvey Island Smuggle yourself inside | 42 Graham Gooch to Bat | Chelmsford Still not out | 44 Oldest Wireless Factory | Chelmsford Radio, Live Transmission | 46 Dickens’ Maypole Pub | Chigwell Sheesh, it’s now a kebab joint! | 48 House on Legs | Clacton On our block, all of the guys call her flamingo | 50 Jaywick Shanty Town | Clacton Forlorn and forgotten | 52 Martello Tower Art Centre | Clacton Art attack is the best form of defence | 54 Balkerne Gate | Colchester Entrance to England’s longest Roman town wall | 56 Uni of the Hard Left | Colchester Say you want a revolution | 58 The Witchfinder’s Castle | Colchester Heads, you lose. Tales, he wins | 60 Constable Country Most arresting views | 62 Crashed Plane Memorial | Dengie Peninsula It’s got its nose to the ground | 64 Lonely Church by the Sea | Dengie Peninsula On this wall I will build my church | 66 Petrified Forest at Furze | Dengie Peninsula It’s coming, it’s in the trees! | 68 Crass’ Country Commune | Epping Forest How does it feel…? | 70 Cricket on Top of the M25 | Epping Forest Just don’t hit a six | 72 The Gilwell Oak | Epping Forest Be prepared for this scouts’ honour of a tree | 74 Pole Hill Meridian Marker | Epping Forest It divides the country, not just the forest | 76 Woody Den for the Famous | Epping Forest And it’s good old country comfort | 78 Billy Bragg’s A 13 | Essex Route 666 | 80 Peasants’ Revolt Memorial | Fobbing Wat a time to march on London | 82 The Broomway | Foulness Island Britain’s deadliest path | 84 Fancy Frinton Beach Huts | Frinton-on-Sea So posh even the dog poo smells sweet | 86 Sunshine Homes by the Sea | Frinton-on-Sea Utopia nearly realised | 88 The Council House Palace | Great Dunmow In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome… | 90 Royalty’s Abandoned Fort | Hadleigh Castle near the sand | 92 The Salvation Army Farm | Hadleigh ‘Salvation à la mode and a cup of tea’ | 94 Harlow – Sculpture Town | Harlow Where the whole town is a museum of stone | 96 The Lawn | Harlow Britain’s first residential tower block | 98 Anti-Invasion Fort | Harwich They fought long to save the fortress and the port | 100 Mayflower Captain’s House | Harwich Pilgrims, strangers sailing from a wearisome land | 102 The Curiosity Cabinet | Leigh-on-Sea Readers of a squeamish disposition look away now | 104 Lee Brilleaux Bench | Leigh-on-Sea You got me on milk and alcohol | 106 Old Leigh Fish Stalls | Leigh-on-Sea What’s your poisson? | 108 Two Tree Island | Leigh-on-Sea First there is a tree then another, yes there is | 110 The Bible Murals Church | Little Braxted ‘Overlay the walls with gold and graved cherubims’ | 112 The PitStop | Little Hallingbury Oi! Who do you think you are, Stirling Moss? | 114 Zeppelin Village | Little Wigborough What was and should never have been | 116 Simon Beck’s Slag Heap | London Essex, Beckton Après ski, le déluge | 118 Biggest UK Council Estate | London Essex, Becontree Ennui east of the East End | 120 Ford’s | London Essex, Dagenham ‘Any color so long as it is black’ | 122 Itchycoo Park | London Essex, Gants Hill It’s all too beautiful | 124 Tube Tunnel Plane Factory | London Essex, Gants Hill Airtight manufactory | 126 The IRA Man’s Church | London Essex, Leytonstone ‘We Ourselves’ | 128 No Motorway Protest Road | London Essex, Leytonstone Just a slip of a road | 130 The Station to Nowhere | London Essex, North Woolwich A bit of Essex in Kent, or the other way round? | 132 The Thames Barrier | London Essex, Silvertown Before the Flood | 134 Boleyn Tavern | London Essex, Upton Park Not Anne Boleyn’s local | 136 The Doctor Who Shop | London Essex, Upton Park It’s like the Tardis in there | 138 World Champions | London Essex, Upton Park Fake Jules Rimet still gleaming | 140 The Ruined Village Green | London Essex, Wanstead Going back to its roots | 142 Anti-Air War Memorial | London Essex, Woodford Air war, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing | 144 Churchill Usually Defaced | London Essex, Woodford We will wipe the graffiti. We will never surrender | 146 The Gypsy Stone | London Essex, Woodford Gypsies, champs and leaves | 148 Magnificent Maldon | Maldon Worth its salt | 150 Oldest UK Battlefield | Maldon Byrhtnoth the Vanquished | 152 A House for Essex | Manningtree Fairy eccentric | 154 The Manningtree Tree | Manningtree Old Knobbley | 156 Twin Towers of Mistley | Manningtree Didn’t there used to be a church here? | 158 Shakespeare Tempest Isle | Mersea Island Such stuff as dreams are not made on | 160 Greensted-juxta-Ongar | Ongar UK’s oldest wooden church | 162 Most Obscure Tube Station | Ongar ‘Theydon Bois on guitar’ | 164 Bull’s Folly | Pentlow Mum and dad: is this right? | 166 Keith Flint’s Pub | Pleshey Mine’s a firestarter! | 168 The Pink Toothbrush | Rayleigh ‘I’m a pink toothbrush, you’re a blue toothbrush’ | 170 Osea Island | River Blackwater Exclusively yours | 172 Georgia Founder’s Grave | Romford, Cranham An old stone vault that keeps Georgia on our minds | 174 Air Control Tower Des Res | Saffron Walden Not such a plane property | 176 Temple of Concord | Saffron Walden Arrive before you leave | 178 Town of Mazes | Saffron Walden No need for a labyrinth when the universe is one | 180 Ministry of Defence Beach | Shoeburyness Danger of death – really! | 182 Port of London Marker | Southend-on-Sea That’s your limit! | 184 Surviving Mulberry Harbour | Southend-on-Sea Beware – World War II hardware in the sea | 186 Three Clocks o’Clock | Southend-on-Sea Maybe better to ask a policeman | 188 Town to City – at last! | Southend-on-Sea It took a tragedy | 190 World’s Longest Pier | Southend-on-Sea Peerless | 192 Ancient Aerodrome | Stow Maries We have clearance, Clarence | 194 The Cathedral of Essex | Thaxted For St John the Baptist, St Mary and St Laurence | 196 Thaxted Guildhall | Thaxted Medieval masterpiece and Morris Men | 198 Grave of Jack the Ripper? | Thorpe-le-Soken The sceptre shan’t depart from Judah until Shiloh | 200 Amazon’s Depot | Tilbury Deliver yourself to their door | 202 Bata-Ville Shoe City | Tilbury The sole of Tilbury | 204 Empire Windrush Landing Point | Tilbury This is my country | 206 Tilbury Docks | Tilbury ‘By Thames to All People of the World’ | 208 Tilbury Fort | Tilbury Redoubtable repellent | 210 Wells Coates Sunspan Home | Tilbury Pick it up and take it away with you | 212 Layer Marney Tower | Tiptree Tallest Tudor turrets | 214 Tiptree Jam Museum | Tiptree Jam today – and tomorrow | 216 Remains of the Old Abbey | Waltham Abbey Bring in the body | 218 Ring Out Wild Bells | Waltham Abbey In Memoriam | 220 Royal Gunpowder Mills | Waltham Abbey A most explosive entity | 222 Naze Tower | Walton-on-the-Naze On the naze | 224 Secret Water | Walton-on-the-Naze Arthur Ransome’s children’s classic | 226 The Chapel in the Mall | West Thurrock Shop ’til you drop on your knees | 228 Church of Gareth’s Burial | West Thurrock No weddings but a funeral | 230\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/uk\/book\/111-places-in-essex-that-you-shouldnt-miss\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"111 Places in Essex That You Shouldn't Miss - ACC Art Books UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Title: 111 Places in Essex That You Shouldn't Miss, Pages: 240 Pages, Publish Date: 8th Nov 2022, Author: Ed Glinert, ISBN: 9783740815936. Essex: More than just the overspill from crowded London, the happy home of those lured by the sea, sand and Shoeburyness.Basildon – Birthplace of Essex Man | Basildon Welcome to Bas Vegas | 10 Depeche Who? | Basildon ‘Leave in Silence’ | 12 Weirdness at Wat Tyler | Basildon Pleasant, and not too revolting | 14 Essex’s Noisiest Church | Bowers Gifford Stop the service, there’s a train! | 16 Gant Around Braintree | Braintree A mess of pottage | 18 Silver End Model Village | Braintree When I’m making windows | 20 Kelvedon Hatch Bunker | Brentwood Your air is beautiful tonight – atomic | 22 TOWIE’s Sugar Hut | Brentwood Surely there must be another way for Essex? | 24 Tiles of the Shipwrecked | Brightlingsea Tributes to the sank of cinque | 26 The Hostage Windows | Broxted Stained glass celebrates freedom from captivity | 28 Le Corbusier-Styled Yacht Club | Burnham-on-Crouch Towards a new architecture | 30 Art Deco Island Icon | Canvey Island Mighty modernist masterpiece | 32 The Chassidim of Canvey | Canvey Island Be fruitful and multiply | 34 Dr Feelgood’s Surgery | Canvey Island They did it right | 36 Dutch Cottages of 1618 | Canvey Island Nether nether land | 38 Last Degaussing Station | Canvey Island Still in the loop | 40 Lobster Smack | Canvey Island Smuggle yourself inside | 42 Graham Gooch to Bat | Chelmsford Still not out | 44 Oldest Wireless Factory | Chelmsford Radio, Live Transmission | 46 Dickens’ Maypole Pub | Chigwell Sheesh, it’s now a kebab joint! | 48 House on Legs | Clacton On our block, all of the guys call her flamingo | 50 Jaywick Shanty Town | Clacton Forlorn and forgotten | 52 Martello Tower Art Centre | Clacton Art attack is the best form of defence | 54 Balkerne Gate | Colchester Entrance to England’s longest Roman town wall | 56 Uni of the Hard Left | Colchester Say you want a revolution | 58 The Witchfinder’s Castle | Colchester Heads, you lose. Tales, he wins | 60 Constable Country Most arresting views | 62 Crashed Plane Memorial | Dengie Peninsula It’s got its nose to the ground | 64 Lonely Church by the Sea | Dengie Peninsula On this wall I will build my church | 66 Petrified Forest at Furze | Dengie Peninsula It’s coming, it’s in the trees! | 68 Crass’ Country Commune | Epping Forest How does it feel…? | 70 Cricket on Top of the M25 | Epping Forest Just don’t hit a six | 72 The Gilwell Oak | Epping Forest Be prepared for this scouts’ honour of a tree | 74 Pole Hill Meridian Marker | Epping Forest It divides the country, not just the forest | 76 Woody Den for the Famous | Epping Forest And it’s good old country comfort | 78 Billy Bragg’s A 13 | Essex Route 666 | 80 Peasants’ Revolt Memorial | Fobbing Wat a time to march on London | 82 The Broomway | Foulness Island Britain’s deadliest path | 84 Fancy Frinton Beach Huts | Frinton-on-Sea So posh even the dog poo smells sweet | 86 Sunshine Homes by the Sea | Frinton-on-Sea Utopia nearly realised | 88 The Council House Palace | Great Dunmow In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome… | 90 Royalty’s Abandoned Fort | Hadleigh Castle near the sand | 92 The Salvation Army Farm | Hadleigh ‘Salvation à la mode and a cup of tea’ | 94 Harlow – Sculpture Town | Harlow Where the whole town is a museum of stone | 96 The Lawn | Harlow Britain’s first residential tower block | 98 Anti-Invasion Fort | Harwich They fought long to save the fortress and the port | 100 Mayflower Captain’s House | Harwich Pilgrims, strangers sailing from a wearisome land | 102 The Curiosity Cabinet | Leigh-on-Sea Readers of a squeamish disposition look away now | 104 Lee Brilleaux Bench | Leigh-on-Sea You got me on milk and alcohol | 106 Old Leigh Fish Stalls | Leigh-on-Sea What’s your poisson? | 108 Two Tree Island | Leigh-on-Sea First there is a tree then another, yes there is | 110 The Bible Murals Church | Little Braxted ‘Overlay the walls with gold and graved cherubims’ | 112 The PitStop | Little Hallingbury Oi! 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Absolutely nothing | 144 Churchill Usually Defaced | London Essex, Woodford We will wipe the graffiti. 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