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Clacton's environmental qualities draw on several things: proximity to the sea, its evolution as the resort, its attraction as a retirement area, and its business and trade. The conservation and enhancement of Clacton's various environmental qualities depends on assessment, evaluation and management.
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Prior to the foundation of Clacton-on-Sea the chief occupations in the area were farming and small-scale fishing. A steam-powered mill was built in 1867 to replace the local windmill, which was eventually demolished in 1918. Today the town's main industrial area is in the northeast of the town (Gorse
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Clacton has a pleasure pier, arcades, a golf course, caravan parks and an airfield. The town and its beaches are still popular with tourists in the summer and there is an annual entertainment programme including the Clacton Carnival, which starts on the second Saturday in August and lasts for a week.
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between the Pier and Jaywick Sands to the south; they date from 1809 to 1812. The immensely thick brick walls look circular but are, in fact, rounded triangles, designed to deflect cannon-fire. The tower nearest the pier was, unusually, built within a moat. The name comes from similar fortifications
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Clacton Urban District Council built the Town Hall on Station Road to serve both as its headquarters and as a public hall and theatre for the town, with the theatre now called the Princes Theatre. It is a neo-Georgian building, with a tall portico of composite columns flanked by two-story wings. The
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traces at Point Clear to the south and round houses (as cropmarks) near the A133 extension from Weeley to the north. There may have been a pre-Roman (i.e. Celtic) settlement at Great Clacton and there were almost certainly scattered farmsteads as the important British Celtic settlement at Colchester
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between 2020 and 2024, noting a decline in economic performance of these locations. The strategy focuses specifically on local participation within communities and addressing long term prosperity and also proposes bold action in Clacton town centre, recognising that its future is unlikely to be led
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With the advent of cheap flights to Mediterranean resorts in the 1970s, the holiday industry began to decline. Increasingly, hotels' and guest-houses' spare capacity came to be used as 'temporary' accommodation by the local authority to house those on welfare, refugees, migrants and asylum seekers.
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Four notable incidents occurred in Clacton-on-Sea during the Second World War. First, very early in the war a German airman bailed out over the town. Procedures for dealing with enemy captives were not yet well-established and he was treated as a celebrity guest for some days, including by the town
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bought and refurbished the West Clacton Estate, an amusement park to the west of the town. He opened a new amusement park on the site in 1937 and then, a year later on 11 June 1938, opened the second of his holiday camps. This location remained open until 1983 when, due to changing holiday tastes,
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was only about 15 miles (24 km) away. No traces of substantial Roman settlement have been found at Clacton though there are several Roman villa sites nearby (e.g. Alresford, Wivenhoe, Brightlingsea). After the Anglo-Saxon migration and the foundation of the kingdom of Essex, a village called
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bomber crashed into the town on 30 April 1940, demolishing several houses in the Vista Road area as one of the magnetic mines on board exploded on impact, killing the crew and two civilians; another mine was defused by experts from the Navy. Third, the Wagstaff Corner area was bombed in May 1941,
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also ran until the early 1960s. Butlin's reopened the holiday camp after the war. This, along with the expansion of the nearby chalet town of Jaywick, originally a speculative private development of inter-war years, and increasingly capacious caravan sites, all swelled by the movement of retired
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The town's economy continues to rely significantly on entertainment and day-trip facilities; it is strong in the service sector, with a large retired population. The north-west part of the town has two business/industrial parks. In the wider district, agriculture and occupations connected to the
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In 1893, the pier was lengthened to 390 yd (360 m) and entertainment facilities were added. Bought by Ernest Kingsman in 1922, it remained in the ownership of the Kingsman family until 1971. In March 2009, the pier was purchased by the Clacton Pier Company, who installed a 50 ft
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which housed orphaned handicapped girls from London. Cordy's, a well-known large seafront restaurant has recently been demolished. The site of Butlin's Holiday Camp was redeveloped as a housing estate. The once famously crowded bus station in Jackson Road has become a car park. The Ocean Revue
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was the first building of the new resort of Clacton-on-Sea; it opened officially on 27 July 1871. It was 160 yd (150 m) in length and 12 ft (3.7 m) wide. It was built originally as a landing point for goods and passengers, as Clacton was becoming an increasingly popular
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People who wanted to come by road had to go through Great Clacton. In the 1920s, London Road was built to cope with the influx of holidaymakers. Later, in the 1970s, the eastern section of the A120 was opened, obviating the need for Clacton visitors to go through Colchester. Today the
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The former hospice is situated in Jackson Road, in the town centre. It has a curved wood and brick corner design of 2001-2 by the Purcell Miller Tritton architectural partnership. The building has been redeveloped and now houses eighteen modern, privately let, dwellings.
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undertook significant work to develop a 10-year Economic Strategy for the district which includes Clacton on Sea.  Now, half-way through this 10-year strategy, the approach has been refreshed to add a greater focus on the populations of Clacton and
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Clacton's population increased substantially during the 20th century from 7,456 at the 1901 census to 25,000 in the 1960s, 45,065 in 1991 and reaching over 53,000 by 2001. Population as 107,237 according to Dataloft Inform, Land Registry, 2011 Census.
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A huddle of self-builds and kit-houses were built in the 1920s and '30s in a bleak field dangerously close to the mean sea level. It has been described as resembling "a shanty town", but it also has its admirers who call it "a great place to live."
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The parish church of St John, Great Clacton, is the oldest surviving building in the town; it dates from the early decades of the 12th century, though considerably altered. In the late 16th century the vicar was Eleazer Knox (d. 1591) son of
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St Osyth's Teacher Training College occupied several buildings in Clacton, mostly along Marine Parade East, until its amalgamation with the North East Essex Technical College in the late 1970s. The town is served by two secondary schools,
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used to play. Clacton also have a rugby club with teams ranging from under 12s to a first and second team. The first and second teams play in Essex League 1 and train on a Tuesday night which is held at the rugby club in Valley Road.
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can advise on heritage and historic buildings. The district also advises on wildlife conservation, and on obtaining grants for managing countryside for public enjoyment and appreciation. The county has an archaeological service.
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Clacton was repeatedly surveyed by the Army in the Napoleonic Wars as a possible invasion beach-head for Napoleon and his Dutch allies. There was a large army and militia camp where Holland-on-Sea now stands. In 1810 five
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in 1894. In 1895 the council changed the name of the urban district from Great Clacton to simply Clacton. The legal name of the parish which covered the same area as the urban district remained Great Clacton, but as an
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The town expanded substantially in the 1980s, 1990s and first decade of the 21st century, with new housing estates on the rural margins of town, and some brownfield developments. Many residents commute to work in
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Butlins decided to close the facility. It was then purchased by former managers of the camp who reopened it as a short-lived theme park, called Atlas Park. The land was then sold and redeveloped with housing.
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in the same way as most rural areas. As the area became more populous, largely due to the growth of the seaside resort, more urban forms of government were required. The parish of Great Clacton was made a
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A big role in the town during the pre- and post-war period was played by the Kingsman family, which bought and developed the pier and ran a pleasure-steamer service from London. A summer sea excursion to
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Throughout the 1960s Clacton beach remained a popular summer excursion for residents of Essex and east London and in August was often crammed to capacity in the area around the Pier. The
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A 48-turbine wind farm is located 4.3 miles (7 km) south-east of the Clacton coast. It has been in commercial operation since 2010 and has an overall capacity of 173 MW.
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rocket hit in front of the Tower Hotel, injuring dozens of troops inside though without bringing down the structure. Clacton lay beneath the route taken by many of the
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boosted its economy, though the Army took it over between then and 1945 for use as an internment, engineer, pioneer and light anti-aircraft artillery training camp.
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Clacton Airshow, an aerial display, takes place on the Thursday and Friday before the August Bank Holiday, with historic and modern aircraft such as the
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performance was the 1st round. The football team play at the Rush Green Bowl with the stand for the supporters being known as the "bus shelter".
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As common with many English seaside towns, unemployment has remained stubbornly high in Clacton. In 2023, Clacton won a £20 million government
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building dates from 1929. A typical neo-Georgian 'late Imperial'-style building, it is notable chiefly for the decorative use of moulded '
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A real oddity: in Albany Gardens West, near the seafront to the north of the Pier, this house of the 1400s was moved from the village of
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Clacton Urban District Council had provided the town with electricity since the early twentieth century from Clacton power station. Upon
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withdrew from serving Clacton in January 2020; Hedingham & Chambers are now the only operator serving the town from Colchester.
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Clacton has comparatively few buildings of architectural interest. In addition to the surviving large seafront hotels, these are:
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called Clacton between 1895 and 1974. The two settlements gradually merged into a single urban area during the twentieth century.
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A large (and actually unfinished) church of 1912-13 between Tower Road and Wash Lane, St James's is a rare southern building by
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during the Second World War. It does not operate scheduled passenger flights. In the 1990s, the airfield was featured in the
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Clacton has a shopping area with many national chains represented, and a Factory Shopping Village in the north of the town.
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along the coastline and the original village of Great Clacton, now a suburb, to the north. The relevant local authority is
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were built to guard the beaches between Colne Point to the south and what is now Holland-on-Sea to the north of the town.
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Lane Industrial Estate and Oakwood Business Park) which contain a variety of businesses and light industrial units.
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by retail. In 2023, Clacton had the highest proportion within the UK of people classed as "economically inactive".
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which opened the same year. The pier now offers an amusement arcade and many other forms of entertainment.
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Since around 1970 several well-known local buildings have been demolished, including the palatial
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The Cricket Club has many grounds around Clacton with one in Holland-on-sea and another where
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on 23 November 1981, as part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day.
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There is plentiful archaeological evidence of scattered settlement in the area, including
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it had no separate parish council. The neighbouring parish of Little Holland covering
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Candy, Ian; Schreve, Danielle C.; Sherriff, Jennifer; Tye, Gareth J. (January 2014).
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descended upon Clacton-on-Sea. They created mild havoc by fighting with each other.
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Wind turbines are seen in the distance from Clacton-on-Sea beachfront, as a Hindu
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Pier Ward, in the centre of the town, is one of the poorest in the UK; (nearby
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in 1871 as a seaside resort. Originally the main means of access was by sea;
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in 1891, governed by a local board. Such local boards were reconstituted as
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provide further employment. It lies within the United Kingdom Parliament
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was called Great Clacton. Until 1891 the parish was administered by its
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council, before eventually being handed over to the military. Second, a
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The Towers (once St Osyth's Teacher Training College hall of residence)
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was filmed in Clacton, which was also the setting for their film
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operates from Clacton Pier, offering pleasure boat excursions.
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was created for the former urban district and so it become an
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The following were all born or have lived in Clacton-on-Sea:
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There are two tiers of local government covering Clacton, at
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Deposits at Clacton have provided important evidence for the
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DFC (1894–1974), British WWI flying ace and local politician
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of the electricity industry in 1948 ownership passed to the
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Londoners into the area, altered the character of the town.
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from a junction on the existing railway at Thorpe-le-Soken.
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Local news and television programmes are provided by 
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Clacton Urban District was abolished in 1974 under the
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Clacton has a cricket club and a football team called
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Clacton grew into the largest seaside resort between
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On the Easter weekend of 1964, rival youth gangs of
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