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Leigh-on-Sea is served by Leigh-on-Sea railway station on the London, Tilbury and Southend line. [20] The railway station is situated near the western end of Old Leigh marina . Built in 1934, it replaced the original 1855 station, which still exist and are currently used by Leigh Sailing Club.
Two Tree Island is a small island lying north-east of Canvey Island and south-west of Leigh-on-Sea in Essex, England. It covers 257 hectares (640 acres) [1] and is connected to the mainland at Leigh by a single span bridge. The island was reclaimed from the Thames Estuary in the 18th century and used as pasture until 1910 when a sewage works ...
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Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Image; St Clement's Church: Leigh on Sea, Southend-on-Sea: Parish Church: c. 1500:
It goes along sea walls, beside fresh and salt-water marshes, through fields and pasture as well as industrial, military and built-up areas; it finishes at Leigh-on-Sea railway station (51°32'28"N 0°38'25"E).
The Prittle Brook is a 7.2 mile (11.59 km) watercourse in south Essex, England.A tributary of the River Roach, the brook rises in Thundersley and passes through Hadleigh, Leigh-on-Sea, Westcliff, Prittlewell, Rochford and discharges into the Roach and then into the North Sea via the Roach and Crouch estuaries.
[8] [9] A narrow majority of the Site is the Southend on Sea Foreshore Local Nature Reserve. [ n 2 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The marshes and mudflats have internationally important numbers of wildfowl and wading birds, including the dark-bellied brent goose , grey plover , redshank and red knot .
In 1872 the chancel was extended eastwards by the architect C. F. Haywood, and the south aisle was added by Ernest Geldart in 1897 as the population of Leigh-on-Sea continued to grow. [3] The lady chapel , designed in 1913 by Sir Charles Nicholson , was added as a memorial to Rt. Rev. Edward King , a former Bishop of Lincoln and uncle of the ...