--- title: "Jaywick – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Jaywick, United Kingdom: Jaywick is a coastal village in the Tendring district of Essex, England, 2 miles (3 km) west of Clacton-on-Sea. Nearby: Clacton…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jaywick" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jaywick.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/AWM_044211.jpg/1920px-AWM_044211.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Coastal village in Essex, England · United Kingdom # Jaywick Jaywick is a coastal village in the Tendring district of Essex, England, 2 miles (3 km) west of Clacton-on-Sea. ![Jaywick](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/AWM_044211.jpg/1920px-AWM_044211.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Jaywick · Australian War Memorial 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywick), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clacton_Pier) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Cliff_Theatre) 3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clacton_Town_Hall) 4. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywick_Martello_Tower) 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. Go there ## 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-essex-to-jaywick) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London%2C+Essex&to=Jaywick) - London → Jaywick 91 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £11–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-jaywick) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Jaywick) - Luton, Luton → Jaywick 106 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £15–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/luton-luton-to-jaywick) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Luton%2C+Luton&to=Jaywick) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Jaywick) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. 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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 208 km 2. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 310 km 3. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 406 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 589 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 624 km If you know how people move in Jaywick – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cjaywick&title=Jaywick&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fjaywick), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Jaywick - [Clacton-on-Sea](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/clacton-on-sea) town in Essex, England 2.4 km - [Tendring](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tendring) non-metropolitan district in Essex, England, UK 1.2 km - [St Osyth](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/st-osyth) village and civil parish in northeast Essex, England, UK 3.4 km - [Great Clacton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/great-clacton) suburb of Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom 3.2 km - [Bocking's Elm](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bockings-elm) suburb of Clacton-on-Sea, in Essex, England, UK 2.8 km [The place page for Jaywick](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/jaywick) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jaywick, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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