Clacton-on-Sea: Model Yacht Pond
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Clacton-on-Sea: Model Yacht Pond
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 28 Oct 2018
This amenity is at the south-west end of the formal seafront gardens, and on the south-east side of Marine Parade West. The first Ordnance Survey large scale map available online that shows such a pond here dates from 1939. This one and all subsequent ones available show a more elaborate feature with rounded ends rather than the simple rectangular shape of the present one. A local council noticeboard nearby describes the amenity, somewhat bizarrely, as "favourable with young and old, residents and non residents"...
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Image Location
Latitude
51.78418
Longitude
1.148041