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Southend Pier is a major landmark in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom. Extending 1.33 miles (2.14 km) into the Thames Estuary , it is the longest pleasure pier in the world. [ 2 ] The bill to build the new pier, to replace a previous timber jetty , received royal assent as the Southend Pier Act 1829 ( 10 Geo. 4 .
The Southend Pier Railway is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railway in the English city of Southend-on-Sea, Essex.It runs for 1.25 miles (2.0 km) along the 1.34-mile (2.16 km) length of Southend Pier, providing public passenger transport from the shore to the pier head.
The city is one of the most densely populated places in the country outside of London. It is home to the longest pleasure pier in the world, Southend Pier, [2] while London Southend Airport is located to the north of the city centre. Southend-on-Sea originally consisted of a few fishermen's huts and farm at the southern end of the village of ...
Brighton Palace Pier at dusk This is a list of extant and former coastal piers in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man and piers on the river Thames. Coastal piers England Name Place Ceremonial county Opened Length Pier of the Year Listed grade Description Image Central Pier Blackpool Lancashire 30 May 1868 1,118 feet (341 m) Originally 1,518 feet (463 m) long. South Pier Blackpool Lancashire 31 ...
Until the 19th century, Southend-on-Sea was no more than a few fishermen's cottages, and the established centres of population were at Leigh-on-Sea to the west and Prittlewell to the north. However, it was developed as a bathing resort in the 18th century, and the first pier was constructed in 1830.
The Southend-on-Sea lifeboat station is a lifeboat station at Southend-on-Sea in the English county of Essex, operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) since 1879. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Because of the large tidal range and extensive drying foreshore at Southend, the lifeboat station uses two boathouses.
The trail starts at the pier in Southend-on-Sea), in the south-east of the county, and goes north-west across urban and rural Essex It goes through fields and woodland, over commons, alongside rivers, through historic villages, and some built-up areas and finishes at the church of St Mary in Saffron Walden ( 52°01′28″N 00°14′19″E ...
The video was filmed on England's 1.3-mile Southend Pier [1] in March 2013. Moyet refers to it as 'a place that figured highly in my girlhood years.' [1] The video features Moyet, and Moyet's real-life daughter, Caitlin, walking along the rain-soaked pier (as well as standing underneath it) lip-syncing to the song.