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# Clacton-on-Sea

Clacton-on-Sea, often simply called Clacton, is a coastal town in Essex, England.

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## Every way there

- London, Essex → Clacton-on-Sea 94 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £11–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-essex-to-clacton-on-sea) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London%2C+Essex&to=Clacton-on-Sea)
- London → Clacton-on-Sea 94 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £11–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-clacton-on-sea) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Clacton-on-Sea)
- Luton, Luton → Clacton-on-Sea 109 km · quickest by road, 2h · £14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/luton-luton-to-clacton-on-sea) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Luton%2C+Luton&to=Clacton-on-Sea)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Clacton-on-Sea, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Clacton-on-Sea has

- Y Scheduled flights London, Essex (STN), 63 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- Y Ferries Brightlingsea/ Point Clear/ East Mersea Foot Ferry, 9 km, Brightlingsea Harbour; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

51.792°, 1.146°

It lies on the Tendring Peninsula and is the largest settlement in the Tendring District, with a population of 53,200 in 2021. The town is situated around 77 miles (124 km) north-east of London, 16 miles (26 km) south-east of Colchester and 16 miles (26 km) south of Harwich. The area was historically in the parish of Great Clacton. The development of the seaside resort began in the 1870s and was called Clacton-on-Sea to distinguish it from the older village about 1 mile (1.6 km) inland. Great Clacton and Clacton-on-Sea were always administered together, forming a single urban district called Clacton between 1895 and 1974; the two settlements gradually merged into a single urban area during the 20th century. It lies within the Parliamentary constituency of Clacton.

Get in

## Getting to Clacton-on-Sea

Exit the A12 at the Colchester North exit onto the A120, and then the A133 all the way into Clacton.

See

## Worth seeing

1. Clacton-on-Sea 360-m pier that opened in 1871.
2. Clacton Seafront Gardens
3. Great Holland Pits
4. Jaywick Martello Tower Arts, heritage and community venue in a renovated Martello tower.

Do

## Things to do

1. Push Kiting
2. Clacton Pier
3. The Beach CO15 6JS (OS Grid ref TM 1760 1445).
4. Weeley Hall Wood

Eat

## Where to eat

1. Armstrongs at the Pavilion
2. Franco's
3. Aroy
4. Toby Cavery Marine Parade West, Martello Bay, Clacton-On-Sea, CO15 1NW,.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clacton-on-Sea) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Clacton), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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