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Jaywick

Jaywick is a coastal village in the Tendring district of Essex, England, 2 miles (3 km) west of Clacton-on-Sea.

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The place

Jaywick is a coastal village in the Tendring district of Essex, England, 2 miles (3 km) west of Clacton-on-Sea. It lies on the North Sea coast of England, 60 miles (97 km) from London and 17 miles (27 km) from Colchester. It was constructed in the 1930s as a holiday resort for Londoners but has, over time, been officially named the most deprived area in the country.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Jaywick

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Clacton Pier

    Clacton Pier is a pier located in the seaside resort town of Clacton-on-Sea in England. It was named Pier of the Year in 2020 by the National Piers Society.

    2.7 km · pier in Clacton-on-Sea, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    West Cliff Theatre

    The West Cliff Theatre in Clacton-on-Sea, England, dates back to 1894 when Bert Graham, a 21-year-old civil servant, set up a concert party on a patch of waste ground in Agate Road. In 1899, along with Bernard Russell and Will Bentley, Graham moved the concert party to the West Cliff Gardens.

    2.3 km · theatre in Clacton-on-Sea, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Clacton Town Hall

    Clacton Town Hall is a municipal building in Station Road, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, England. The town hall, which is the headquarters of Tendring District Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    2.8 km · town hall in Clacton-on-Sea, Tendring, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Jaywick Martello Tower

    Jaywick Martello Tower is a renovated Martello tower at Jaywick, 2.7 miles south-west of Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. It now functions as an arts, heritage and community venue.

    1.7 km · fort in Jaywick, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Jaywick

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 62 km · London Luton (LTN), 103 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 114 km
Stations
Clacton Airport, 1.1 km · Clacton-on-Sea railway station, 3 km
  • London, Essex → Jaywick
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £11–15
  • London → Jaywick
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £11–15
  • Luton, Luton → Jaywick
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £15–19
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Jaywick

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Jaywick. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    208 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    310 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    406 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    589 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    624 km

If you know how people move in Jaywick – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Jaywick

  • Clacton-on-Seatown in Essex, England2.4 km
  • Tendringnon-metropolitan district in Essex, England, UK1.2 km
  • St Osythvillage and civil parish in northeast Essex, England, UK3.4 km
  • Great Clactonsuburb of Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom3.2 km
  • Bocking's Elmsuburb of Clacton-on-Sea, in Essex, England, UK2.8 km