Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2022 [4K]

A pleasant stroll along the promenade on a beautiful crisp winter morning.

This video was filmed on the morning of Sunday 30th January, 2022.

The camera used for filming is a Sony FDR-X3000.

Walton-on-the-Naze is a seaside town on the North Sea coast and a former civil parish , now in the parish of Frinton and Walton, in the Tendring district in Essex, England. It is north of Clacton and south of the port of Harwich. Frinton-on-Sea is to the south of the town. The town has a population of 12,054 (according to the 2011 census). In 1931 the parish had a population of 3071. It attracts many visitors, The Naze being the main attraction. There is also a pier which is the second longest in the UK after Southend-on-Sea.

The name 'Walton' is a common one meaning a 'farmstead or village of the Britons'.

Walton had a HM Coastguard team and was home to the Thames MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre), organising rescues from Southwold to Herne Bay. It closed in June 2015 as part of a Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) modernisation programme, transferring its operations to a national centre in Fareham on the south coast.

Walton-on-the-Naze railway station is on a branch of the Sunshine Coast Line.

Along the coast there are many fossils to be found. Some rocks are up to 50 million years old. Rocks include red crag and London clay.

"Naze" derives from Old English næss "ness, promontory, headland". In 1722 Daniel Defoe mentions the town calling it "Walton, under the Nase".

The Naze is a peninsula north of the town. It is important for migrating birds and has a small nature reserve. The marshes of Hamford Water behind the town are also of ornithological interest, with wintering ducks and Brent geese. Many bird watchers visit at migration times.

The Hanoverian tower (more commonly known as the Naze Tower) at the start of the open area of the Naze was a sea mark to assist ships on this otherwise fairly featureless coast. It is now privately owned and open to visitors.

The unusual war memorial commemorates a Halifax crew who all died when they crashed on the Naze. It also has a tribute to Herbert George Columbine, who was awarded the VC and after whom the local leisure centre is named, and a tribute to those lost from HMS Conquest during World War I.

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But the past few months, the weather's been too unsettled for long-distance biking, so I started making videos of rough seas at high tide! Much as you have here! I see by your channel, you're certainly well traveled! Thanks for visiting my home town! 👍🏻