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Suburb of Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England · United Kingdom

Shoeburyness

Shoeburyness, or simply Shoebury, is a coastal town in the City of Southend-on-Sea, in the ceremonial county of Essex, England; it lies 3 miles (5 km) east of the city centre.

Shoeburyness
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The place

Shoeburyness, or simply Shoebury, is a coastal town in the City of Southend-on-Sea, in the ceremonial county of Essex, England; it lies 3 miles (5 km) east of the city centre. It was formerly a separate town until it was absorbed into Southend in 1933.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Shoeburyness

One place 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
    Danish Camp

    Danish Camp is an Iron Age fortified settlement in Shoeburyness in Essex. It is a Scheduled Monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979, list number 1017206.

    700 m · archaeological site in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Shoeburyness

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 55 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 80 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 87 km
Stations
Shoeburyness railway station, 200 m · Thorpe Bay railway station, 2.6 km
  • London, Essex → Shoeburyness
    64 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £7–9
  • London → Shoeburyness
    64 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £7–9
  • Luton, Luton → Shoeburyness
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Shoeburyness

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 Shoeburyness. 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

    174 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    343 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    382 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    596 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    631 km

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

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