IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Hastings Avenue, CLACTON-ON-SEA, CO15 1XY

Introduction

This page details the photographs taken nearby to Hastings Avenue, CO15 1XY by members of the Geograph project.

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Martello tower, Clacton-on-Sea
Image: © JThomas Taken: 9 May 2012
0.04 miles
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Martello Tower no. 2 and beach patrol hut, Clacton
The tower is a grade II listed building from around 1810. Brick built, the listing makes the interesting observation that the bricks came from Grays. Doubtless they were shipped round in Thames barges which beached nearby.
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 30 Nov 2018
0.04 miles
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Martello Tower no. 2, Clacton
A grade II listed building from around 1810. Brick built, the listing makes the interesting observation that the bricks came from Grays. Doubtless they were shipped round in Thames barges which beached nearby.
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 30 Nov 2018
0.04 miles
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Clacton-on-Sea: Martello Tower E
The east coast Martello Towers were built between 1808 and 1812. 29 were built from St Osyth in Essex north-eastwards to Aldeburgh in Suffolk, and are named by Historic England in the same order from A to Z then AA to CC, so this is the fifth tower along. Just to confuse the issue the Ordnance Survey refer to this one as Tower No 2 on all their mapping. The east coast towers are not circular in plan nor oval as might be thought from this viewpoint, but more of a triangular ovoid for want of a better term. This one is a Scheduled Monument and a Grade II Listed Building and the Historic England website describes it quite briefly thus:- "Martello Tower adjacent to sea wall, Butlins Holiday Village. Vari-coloured brick, made at Grays, Essex, now rendered. Stone parapet. Rusticated stone dressings to 4 windows and door at half height. Built at a cost of approximately £5,000." The Butlin's Holiday Camp has long been demolished, but the 1955 large scale Ordnance Survey maps show the tower completely surrounded by the camp. Interestingly the Victorian Ordnance Survey large scale maps do not show these towers at all, just the boundary lines of the plots, so evidently they were considered to be of military significance long after the threat of a Napoleonic invasion had passed. This one is evidently in a dangerous state and a half-hearted attempt has been made to keep the hoi polloi out with some fairly rickety Heras fencing. The Ordnance Survey records also show that there is a 4th Order Triangulation Station, a bolt, set somewhere on the roof. This would have served the same purpose as the more familiar triangulation pillars, as being a point that had been very accurately co-ordinated to the mapping grid of the time. The OS records also state that it was last maintained in 1959, and that since the tower was bricked up, a very long ladder was required to access the roof!
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 28 Oct 2018
0.04 miles
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Martello Tower E in Clacton
Martello towers are small coastal artillery forts constructed after the renewal of war with France in 1803 to defend England against the threat of invasion. Their design and name were taken from a tower at Martello Bay, Corsica.
Image: © Steve Daniels Taken: 5 Sep 2017
0.04 miles
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Martello Tower
Taken from the car park off Hastings Avenue.
Image: © Trevor Harris Taken: 27 May 2015
0.04 miles
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Clacton Prom by Hastings Avenue
Looking back towards Image
Image: © Glyn Baker Taken: 30 Mar 2019
0.04 miles
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Beach Patrol & Martello Tower
I wonder if Robin's picture Image proves "great minds think alike" or "that Fools seldom differ" ?
Image: © Glyn Baker Taken: 30 Mar 2019
0.04 miles
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Martello Tower 'E', Clacton-on-Sea
This is one of the six remaining Martello towers, of the 11 originally built, along this stretch of the Essex coast. It was completed in 1812. For many years it was enclosed within a holiday camp but by the time of this 1998 view that had been replaced by a housing estate which can be glimpsed to the left of the tower. For a view taken 20 years later and giving more historical information see: Image
Image: © Stephen McKay Taken: Unknown
0.04 miles
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Martello Tower and Clacton pier behind
Image: © roger geach Taken: 10 Jul 2008
0.05 miles
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