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, 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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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.
- 01Danish 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 → Shoeburyness64 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £7–9
- London → Shoeburyness64 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £7–9
- Luton, Luton → Shoeburyness92 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £10–14
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
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If you know how people move in Shoeburyness – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Shoeburyness
- Great Wakeringvillage in Essex, England, UK2.6 km
- North Shoeburysuburb in Shoeburyness, Essex, England, UK1.4 km
- Little Wakeringhamlet in Essex, UK3 km