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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Southend On Sea

5 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Southend-on-Sea, England

Updated August 26, 2024
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The causeway from Wakering Stairs.

Southend-on-Sea, England

The Broomway

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.
Cranfield's Curiosity Cabinet.

Southend-on-Sea, England

Cranfield's Curiosity Cabinet

A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.
Southend Pier Railway.

Southend-on-Sea, England

Southend Pier Railway

This charming, narrow-gauge railway in the Thames Estuary is sometimes referred to as the "Train to Nowhere."
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Tomb of Mary Ellis at St. Clement's Church.

Southend-on-Sea, England

The Cutlass Stone

A story of cutlasses carelessly carving a celibate centenarian's cemetery stone.
The Souvenir, now the Graveyard of Lost Species

Southend-on-Sea, England

Graveyard of Lost Species

A boat slowly sinking into the Essex mud flats bearing the names of the disappeared that haunt the Thames Estuary.
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Dutch Cottage

This octagonal cottage is the smallest and the oldest council house in the United Kingdom.
5 miles from Southend-on-Sea
SS Richard Montgomery's eerie masts at low tide

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Wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery

No one is sure what to do with this WWII shipwreck that sits at the bottom of the Thames, still loaded with tons of explosives.
6 miles from Southend-on-Sea
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