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Frinton Park Estate was a project at Frinton-on-Sea in Essex, England, supervised by the architect Oliver Hill, to create a housing estate which would include many examples of modernist architecture. In the event, not all the intended houses were built; many of these remain, some of which are now listed buildings .
Frinton was once geographically distinct, but housing estates now line the roads between Frinton and Walton-on-the-Naze, Kirby Cross and Kirby-Le-Soken. The town has sandy and stone beach washed daily, more than a mile (1,600 m) long, with wardens in season, and an area of sea zoned for swimming, sailing and windsurfing.
The area with bungalows built in the 1920s–1930s in New Delhi is now known as Lutyens' Bungalow Zone [12] and is an architectural heritage area. In Bandra , a suburb of India's commercial capital Mumbai , numerous colonial-era bungalows exist; they are threatened by removal and replacement of ongoing development.
The parish council was created to replace Frinton and Walton Urban District Council at the same time. The previously separate parishes of Frinton, Great Holland, Kirby le Soken and Walton le Soken had been combined in 1934 as part of a Local Government Act 1929 review to form a new parish and urban district of Frinton and Walton.
One Middlesex parish, Clerkenwell, had a detached portion that became an exclave of London surrounded by Middlesex. The exclave comprised a 0.1 sq mi (0.3 km 2) area of north-central Muswell Hill, and occupied the east side of Colney Hatch Lane from Muswell Hill Broadway as far north as the present Goodwyns Vale. Back then, it was parkland and ...
Wallasea Island; Waltham Abbey; Walton-on-the-Naze; Warley; Wendens Ambo; West Bergholt; Westcliff-on-Sea; West Hanningfield; West Horndon; West Mersea; West Tilbury
The Dunton Plotlands was an area of small rural plots of land in Dunton Wayletts, southern Essex inhabited from the 1930s [1] to the 1980s. [2] The 'plotlands' consisted of small plots of land sold in the first half of the 20th century to people who built weekend cottages, holiday bungalows or smallholdings there. [3]
The northern tower was used by the Navy in both world wars, and the minefield control and signals bunker added in 1940 can still be seen on top. For many years a tea shop was attached. It is now the East Essex Aviation Museum. In the Second World War the whole area was strongly fortified, and was a Royal Navy and Marines landing craft training ...