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Clacton-on-Sea
Clacton-on-Sea (Essex)
Clacton-on-Sea

Clacton-on-Sea shown within Essex
Population 53,000
OS grid reference TM170150
District Tendring
Shire county Essex
Region East
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town CLACTON-ON-SEA
Postcode district CO15 & CO16
Dialling code 01255
Police Essex
Fire Essex
Ambulance East of England
European Parliament East of England
UK Parliament Harwich
List of places: UK • England • Essex

Coordinates: 51°47′31″N 1°08′45″E / 51.7918, 1.1457

Clacton-on-Sea is the largest town on the Tendring Peninsula, in Essex, England and was founded in 1871. Essex is a county in the East of England. The County town is Chelmsford, and the highest point of the county is Chrishall Common In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude The districts of England are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government Etymology There are these theories about the origin of its name- From Anglo-Saxon tynder = " Tinder " "place where tinder Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties are one of the four levels of Subdivisions of England used for the purposes of Local government outside Greater London Essex is a county in the East of England. The County town is Chelmsford, and the highest point of the county is Chrishall Common The region, also known as the government office region, is currently the highest tier of local government sub-national entity of England, with only one The East of England is one of the nine official Regions of England. Constituent country is a phrase used often by official institutions in contexts in which a country makes up a part of a larger entity or grouping England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland This list of sovereign states, alphabetically arranged gives an overview of States around the world with information on the extent of their Sovereignty. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A post town is a required part of all postal addresses in the United Kingdom, and a basic unit of the postal delivery system UK Postal codes are known as postcodes. UK postcodes are Alphanumeric. The, also known as the Colchester postcode area, is a group of postal districts around Bures, Clacton-on-Sea, Colchester, Frinton-on-Sea The UK Telephone numbering plan, also known as the National Telephone Numbering Plan, is the system used for assigning Telephone numbers in the United There are a number of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom. Essex Police is a Home Office (territorial police force with responsibility for policing the County of Essex in the East of England. The fire service in the United Kingdom operates under separate legislative and administrative arrangements in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Essex County Fire and Rescue Service (ECFRS is the Statutory FRS (fire and rescue service for the county of Essex in the southeast of England and is The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust is the authority responsible for providing NHS Ambulance services in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, East of England is a Constituency of the European Parliament. This is a list of the 646 constituencies currently represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as at the 2005 general election Harwich is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. A Gazetteer of place names in the United Kingdom showing each place's County, Unitary authority or council area and its geographical coordinates List of places --> List of cities in the United Kingdom List of towns in England Lists of places This is a list of cities, Towns Villages and other named geographical features in the County of Essex, England. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. A town is a type of settlement ranging from a few to several thousand (occasionally hundreds of thousands inhabitants although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan Etymology There are these theories about the origin of its name- From Anglo-Saxon tynder = " Tinder " "place where tinder Essex is a county in the East of England. The County town is Chelmsford, and the highest point of the county is Chrishall Common England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland It is a seaside resort that used to attract many tourists in the '60s and '70s, but which like other English resorts has been in decline since foreign holidays became fashionable making it more of a retirement hotspot these days. A seaside resort is a Resort located on the Coast. Where a Beach is the primary focus for Tourists it may be called a beach resort Retirement is the point where a person stops employment completely It is located between Jaywick and Holland-on-sea and Great Clacton to the north

The town is served by Clacton-on-Sea railway station (90 minutes to London Liverpool Street station). Jaywick ( is a small seaside village near Clacton-on-Sea, in Essex on the North Sea coast of England. Holland-on-sea is a seaside town in east Essex in the United Kingdom. Great Clacton is a locality in the Tendring district of Essex England Clacton-on-Sea railway station serves the town of Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, England.

Clacton has a pleasure pier, arcades, a golf course, caravan parks and an airfield. The town and its beaches are still popular with tourists in the summer, and there is an annual entertainment programme including the Clacton carnival and Clacton Airshow, an aerial display that takes place on the Thursday and Friday before the August Bank Holiday involving historic and modern aircraft such as the Lancaster, Spitfires, Hurricane, helicopters, Harrier, Jaguar, Tornado, wing-walkers and the Red Arrows. "Lanc" redirects here Distinguish from Lank (adjective and from Amon Lanc (a place in Tolkien's fiction WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout History Since 400 AD Chinese children have played with bamboo flying toys. The Red Arrows, officially known as the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, is the Aerobatics display team of the Royal Air Force, based at RAF Scampton

Clacton-on-Sea is served by a bustling shopping area with many of the usual national chains represented.

Clacton-on-Sea has two theatres, the West Cliff Theatre and the Princes Theatre. The West Cliff Theatre in Clacton-on-Sea, England, dates back to 1894 when Bert Graham, a 21-year-old civil servant set up a concert party on a patch of The West Cliff is one of the last theatres in the country to put on an old style summer show.

Clacton used to be home to the second oldest Butlins site, but in 1983, it was closed and replaced with the Martello Bay housing estate after a very short lived theme park called Atlas Park took over the site. Butlin's Holiday Camps, presently known by the (non-possessive trademark Butlins, were founded by (later Sir Billy Butlin to provide economical holidays ( North

St Osyth's Teacher Training College occupied several buildings in Clacton, mostly along Marine Parade East, until its amalgamation with the North East Essex Technical College in the late 1970s.

Clacton's population has grown hugely, in 1901 it was 7456, 1991 was 45,065 and today stands at over 53,000.

Clacton was once the home of the singer Sade and C. See also Sade (band Helen Folasade Adu, OBE, (born 16 January 1959 better known as Sade (pronounced "shah-day" ʃɑːˈdeɪ is a J from The Wildhearts as well as the groups the insane picnic, Spasmodic Caress, The Quivering Tendency and Prince Charles' Forgotten Aspect. The Wildhearts are a rock group from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. In the early 1980s English band the insane picnic (always printed in lower case were one of the pioneering D Spasmodic Caress were an English Post punk / New Wave band that played many gigs along the East coast and in Ipswich Colchester and London between 1979 and 1984

Leeds United and former Ipswich Town midfielder Ian Westlake was born in the town, as well as the lead singer of rock band Interpol, Paul Banks. Leeds United Association Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Leeds United or informally Leeds, are an English professional football PLEASE NOTE This section is the introduction Please do not add too much detail here Ian John Westlake (born 10 July, 1983 in Clacton) is an English professional footballer currently playing for League One Interpol is an American Alternative rock band formed in 1997 in New York City. Paul Julian Banks (born May 3, 1978) is an English-American Musician best known as the lead singer, Lyricist

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History

A map of Clacton-on-Sea in 1940
A map of Clacton-on-Sea in 1940

Great Clacton was founded by the Celts in c. 100BC. There are some vague traces of Romans using the Clacton area as a seaside resort. Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between AD 43 and 410 The name Clacton dates from c. 500 AD when the area was settled by Saxons. The original name, Claccingaton, means 'the village of Clacc's people'. The Domesday Book, a census conducted by William the Conqueror, records the village as Clachintuna. The Domesday Book (ˈduːmzdeɪ bʊk also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester) was the record of the great survey William I of England ( 1027 His reign which brought Norman culture to England had an enormous impact on the subsequent course of England in the Middle Ages

Early village life was dominated by St John's Church which is now the oldest building in Clacton. It has been suggested that smugglers may have used a tunnel from the coast to the Ship Inn to smuggle goods into the country, but this is discounted by serious historians. Nowadays, this area is called Great Clacton.

The modern day Clacton-on-Sea was founded by Peter Bruff in 1871 as a seaside resort. Peter Schuyler Bruff (1812 - 1900 born in Portsmouth, England was a Civil engineer most well known for founding the seaside resort town of Clacton Year 1871 ( MDCCCLXXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Originally the main means of access was by sea. Ships came and docked at Clacton Pier, which now offers an amusement arcade and many other forms of entertainment. People who wanted to come by road had to go through Great Clacton. In the 1920s, London Road was built to cope with the influx of holidaymakers. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Later, in the 1970s, the eastern section of the A120 was opened obviating the need for Clacton visitors to go through Colchester.

In archaeology, Clacton is famous as the eponymous site of the lower Palaeolithic Clactonian industry of flint tool manufacture. The term Paleolithic (or Palaeolithic) (from Greek παλαιός palaios, " Old " and λίθος Lithos, "stone" The Clactonian is the name given by Archaeologists to an industry of European flint tool manufacture that dates to the early part of the Interglacial period An archaeological industry is the name given to a consistent range of assemblages connected with a single product, such as the Langdale axe industry. "Clactonian" is the name given for the man whose flint tools were found at Clacton from that period.

Stone-age people set up camp, at Clacton (now lost beneath the waves due to coastal erosion). This was in the Interglacial stage (a major division of the Pleistocene epoch, which occurred from 1,600,000 to 10,000 years ago). The Pleistocene ('plaɪstəsin is the epoch from 18 million to 10000 years BP covering the world's recent period

Year History
400,000 B. C. Clactonian tools, early flake instruments dating back to the early Interglacial stage, get their name from the area.
900 B. C. The 'Catuvellauni' (Celts) set up a village inland, on site of Great Clacton.
500 A. D. Saxons under their leader Clacc from whom the town gets its name set up residence, Clacc Inga Ton (the Village of Clacc's People).
1000 The "Claccingtune" a tithe introduced by the Church to contribute two seaman towards a ships crew.
1056 In the Domesday Book, it was recorded that 'Clachintuna' was part of a Manor belonging to the Bishops of London.
1100s Midsummer Fair established on 29th June, ran for 700 years, until abolished in 1872.
1539 Abbot of St. Osyth's surrendered all Lands to his King. Henry VIII handed over the land to Thomas Cromwell
1539-1545 Henry VIII appointed himself Lord of Manors of Great and Little Clacton and Cann Hall after execution of Thomas Cromwell. Henry VIII (28 June 1491 &ndash 28 January 1547 was King of England and Lord of Ireland, later King of Ireland and claimant to the Kingdom of
1645-1832 Smugglers Headquarters in Great Clacton, many tunnels are said to exist between St John's church and the Ship Inn as well as other places. One runs from the north side of the church towards St. John's square. Others are reputed to run from the Ship's Inn, Geddy Hall (Home of the Webb family), the Queen's head and at Eaglehurst, a house in Valley Road. The smugglers were a rough lot sometimes taking captive the revenue men while they completed their work of loading cargo from the unguarded beach at Clacton and storing it, ready for "Gentleman" to transport it to London. Clacton Beach was also situated between two noxious marshes Little Holland to the east and Jaywick to the west.
7th December 1830 Luddites smashed up farm machinery on nearby farms. The Swing Riots were a widespread uprising by the rural workers of the arable south and east of England in 1830. 1,000 locals had to put down the riot.
1911 Archaeologist, J. Hazzledine Warren discovered a wooden spear, dating back some 250,000 years. This is the oldest known man-made wooden artifact found on the British Isles'. [1]

Industry

Before the Industrial Revolution, Clacton's industry mainly consisted of arable farmland. The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture manufacturing and transportation had a profound effect on the As the industrial revolution spread across the country, farmers in Clacton realized that their equipment was obsolete. A steam powered mill was built in 1867 to replace the windmill, which was eventually demolished in 1918.


Photograph Gallery

Clacton town centre

Clacton memorial gardens

Clacton-on-Sea from the air

Clacton beach, seen from the pier

Clacton pier

The Towers, which was once a hall of residence for St Osyths Teacher Training College.

See also

References

  1. ^ The Clacton Spear. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude The Clactonian is the name given by Archaeologists to an industry of European flint tool manufacture that dates to the early part of the Interglacial period Colchester ( /ˈkəʊltʃɛstə/ is a town and the largest settlement within the borough of Colchester, in Essex, England. Essex is a county in the East of England. The County town is Chelmsford, and the highest point of the county is Chrishall Common Natural History Museum. The Natural History Museum is one of three large Museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London (the others are the Science Museum Retrieved on 2007-12-19. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.

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