Southend City Heritage Trail

Walk preview

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   Step 1: Welcome to this heritage trail around Southend City Centre. Your walk begins at Southend Central.

2. Step 2: Trains running to and from London Fenchurch Street, Shoeburyness, Leigh-on-Sea, Benfleet, Basildon, Barking and Limehouse serve Southend Central. There are also local buses that stop here.

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   Step 3: With the station behind you, turn right onto Clifftown Road. You will soon reach the Railway Hotel.

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   Step 4: It bears important local architectural & historical significance to the city, as one of the City's first public houses.

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   Step 5: Continue along Scratton Road. The Scratton’s were wealthy land owners in Southend, with links to Prittlewell Priory and leased the railway company 40 acres of land here for residential development.

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   Step 6: Now take a left onto Milton Place. These streets that you are passing through are all part of the Clifftown Conservation Area.