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Today's featured coast is Essex
Essex is located in the East of England. It has a varied coastline starting in the Thames Estuary, round to the eastern coastline and the North Sea. It has traditional seaside towns such as Southend. Find out more, visit Essex
We have visitor information and photographs for the main coastal towns and resorts in Essex, including and details of beaches, visitor attractions such as , visitor accomodation, B&B's, hotels, guest houses and restaurants.
The Goodwin Sands are a notorious stretch of sands just off the coast of Kent. Submerged at high tides, with areas being exposed and drying sufficiently for a man to walk on at low tides, they present a particular challenge to shipping given their location at the narrowest part of the busiest shipping channel in the world [...] 
The East Coast Martello towers were built in Essex and Suffolk around the same time as the South Coast towers starting in 1809. They were intended to prevent Napoleon's armies from reaching London via Essex/Suffolk [...] 
Martello Towers were built along the coast of Kent and East Sussex, between 1805 and 1808 to protect against invasion by Napoleon. A good number of them survive today, some restored as museums and residences [...]