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Shoeburyness is a town situated in southeast Essex at the mouth of the river Thames within the borough of Southend-on-Sea, around 3 miles (5 km) east of Southend town centre. It was an urban district of Essex from 1894 to 1933, when it became part of the county borough of Southend-on-Sea. Shoeburyness has two beaches; East Beach and Shoebury Common Beach (also known as West Beach), both Blue Flag beaches. East Beach is a sandy/pebbly beach around a quarter of a mile long and is sandwiched between the Ministry of Defence (MOD) site at Pig's Bay and the former Shoeburyness Artillery barracks. Access to the large gravel/grass area is via Rampart Terrace. East Beach is the home of a defence boom, built in 1944, to prevent enemy shipping and submarines from accessing the River Thames. This replaced an earlier similar boom built 100 yards (91 m) east. The majority of the boom was dismantled after the war, but around one mile still remains stretching out into the Thames Estuary. There are plans to build an eighteen storey tower block on the site of the old garrison to mark the beginning of the Thames gateway. |
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