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Shoeburyness

Coordinates: 51°31′54″N
0°47′52″E/51.5316°N 0.7978°E/ 51.5316; 0.7978
Shoeburyness
Shoeburyness
 Shoeburyness shown within Essex
Population 19,991 (2001 Census)
OS grid reference TQ941851
Unitary authority Southend-on-Sea
Ceremonial county Essex
Region East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town SOUTHEND-ON-SEA
Postcode district SS3
Dialling code 01702
Police Essex
Fire Essex
Ambulance East of England
EU Parliament East of England
UK Parliament Rochford and Southend East
List of places: UKʉۢ Englandʉۢ Essex
Shoeburyness is a town in southeast Essex, England, situated at the
mouth of the river Thames. It is within the borough of Southend-on-Sea,
and is situated at the far east of the borough, around 3 miles (5 km)
east of Southend town centre. It was an urban district of Essex from
1894 to 1933, when it became part of the county borough of
Southend-on-Sea.[1]
The eastern terminus of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (c2c
line) is at Shoeburyness railway station. Oddly enough, the station was
served by London Underground trains from 1911 to 1939. The eastern end
of the A13 is at Shoeburyness. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) site at
Pig's Bay is situated nearby.
Shoeburyness has two beaches; East Beach and Shoebury Common Beach (also
known as West Beach), both Blue Flag beaches:

East Beach in Shoeburyness
East Beach is a sandy/pebbly beach around a quarter of a mile long and
is sandwiched between the Pig's Bay MOD site and the former Shoeburyness
Artillery barracks. Access to the large gravel/grass pay-and-display car
park is via Rampart Terrace. East Beach is the home of a defence boom,
built in 1944, to prevent enemy shipping and submarines from accessing
the River Thames. This replaced an earlier similar boom built
100 yards (91 m) east. The majority of the boom was dismantled after
the war, but around one mile still remains stretching out into the
Thames Estuary. East Beach benefits from a large grassy area immediately
adjacent to the sands that is suitable for informal sports and family
fun.
Shoebury Common Beach is bounded to the East by the Shoeburyness
Artillery Barracks and continues into Jubilee Beach. Shoebury Common
Beach is home to many beach huts located in the promenade and on the
sand. Uncle Tom's Cabin provides visitors with the usual seaside
refreshments. A Coast Guard watch tower at the eastern end of the beach
keeps watch over the sands and mudflats while listening out for distress
calls over the radio.
A tower is currently in the planning stages that will one day stand in
the Shoeburyness Garrison housing development. The tower, proposed to be
18 storeys high, is being designed to mark the start of the Thames
Gateway development.[2]
[edit] Popular culture
The most famous work of literature in which Shoeburyness is mentioned is
H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds.
Shoeburyness is also mentioned in The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams
et al. The Meaning of Liff is a fictional dictionary assigning names to
local English towns. Shoeburyness is described as "that uncomfortable
feeling one experiences when sitting in a chair that is still warm from
the last occupant."
In the fifth Temeraire novel Victory of Eagles, it is the setting of a
fictitious climactic battle in which Wellesley and Nelson drive Napoleon
out of England in early 1808.
Philip Reeves's Larklight mentions 'a squalid spot called Shoeburyness'.
Billy Bragg's Essex-style reworking of Route 66, A13, opens with the
line "If you ever go to Shoeburyness".
[edit] References
^ Shoeburyness UD Essex through time | Administrative history of Local
Government District: hierarchies, boundaries
^ BBC - Essex - Thames Gateway - A new landmark for Shoebury?
[edit] External links
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article
Shoeburyness.
Shoeburyness Model Railway Club, East Beach, Shoebury Common Beach,
Shoeburyness and Thorpe Bay Baptist Church, Shoeburyness High School,
South Shoebury Parish, Shoebury Youth Football Club, Defence Boom
v • d • e
Ceremonial county of Essex
Unitary authorities
Southend-on-Seaʉۢ Thurrock
Boroughs or districts
Basildonʉۢ Braintreeʉۢ Brentwoodʉۢ Castle
Pointʉۢ Chelmsfordʉۢ Colchesterʉۢ Epping
Forestʉۢ Harlowʉۢ Maldonʉۢ
Rochfordʉۢ Tendringʉۢ Uttlesford
Major settlements
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Buckhurst Hill, Burnham-on-Crouch, Canvey Island, Chalkwell, Chelmsford,
Chigwell, Chipping Ongar, Clacton-on-Sea, Coggeshall, Colchester,
Corringham, Dovercourt, Eastwood, Epping, Frinton-on-Sea, Grays, Great
Dunmow, Hadleigh, Halstead, Harlow, Harwich, Ingatestone, Laindon,
Langdon Hills, Leigh-on-Sea, Loughton, Maldon, Manningtree, Pitsea,
Prittlewell, Rayleigh, Rochford, Saffron Walden, Shoeburyness, South
Benfleet, Southchurch, Southend-on-Sea, South Woodham Ferrers,
Southminster, Stanford-le-Hope, Thaxted, Thorpe Bay, Tilbury, Waltham
Abbey, Walton-on-the-Naze, Westcliff-on-Sea, West Mersea, Wickford,
Witham, Wivenhoe
See also: List of civil parishes in Essex
Rivers
Blackwaterʉۢ Brainʉۢ Camʉۢ Canʉۢ
Chelmerʉۢ Chingʉۢ Cobbins Brookʉۢ
Colneʉۢ Crouchʉۢ River Lee Flood Relief
Channelʉۢ Prittle Brookʉۢ Roachʉۢ
Rodingʉۢ Stortʉۢ Stourʉۢ Stour
Brookʉۢ Terʉۢ Thames
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