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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.
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.
The constituency comprises a small part of the west of Southend-on-Sea, and includes Leigh-on-Sea and Westcliff-on-Sea. It is bounded to the north and east by Rochford and Southend East, to the north by Rayleigh and Wickford, to the west by Castle Point, and to the south by the very end of the Thames Estuary.
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 ...
Canvey Island is a town, civil parish and reclaimed island in the Thames Estuary, near Southend-on-Sea, in the Castle Point district, in the county of Essex, England.It has an area of 7.12 square miles (18.44 km 2) and a population of 38,170. [1]
The SS postcode area, also known as the Southend-on-Sea postcode area, [2] is a group of seventeen postcode districts in England, within eleven post towns. These cover south-east Essex , including Southend-on-Sea , Basildon , Benfleet , Canvey Island , Hockley , Leigh-on-Sea , Rayleigh , Rochford , Stanford-le-Hope , Westcliff-on-Sea and Wickford .
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 ...