Visit Southend-on-Sea Place – things to do & explore
Visit Southend-on-Sea places on a day-trip, weekend away or holiday – and Walkfo becomes your personal digital tour guide to Southend-on-Sea things to do.
Visiting Southend-on-Sea Overview
Southend-on-Sea is a large coastal town and unitary authority area with borough status in southeastern Essex . It lies on the north side of the Thames Estuary, 40 miles (64 km) east of central London . It is home to the longest pleasure pier in the world, Southed Pier . It was announced in October 2021 it will be granted city status as a memorial to Sir David Amess . When you visit Southend-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea history becomes available at the places you travel to by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Southend-on-Sea places overview by Walkfo
Visit to Southend-on-Sea stats
With 56 tourism audio plaques & places for you to explore in Southend-on-Sea, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider in the world. Our AI continually learns & refines content about the best Southend-on-Sea places to visit from online information authorities like Wikipedia for current & history, and converts it into an audio experience.
Southend-on-Sea history
Southend was home to a few poor fishermens’ huts and farms at the southern extremity of Prittlewell Priory land. In the 1790s, landowner Daniel Scratton sold off land on either side of what was to become the High Street. The Grand Hotel (now Royal Hotel) and Grove Terrace were completed by 1794, and stagecoaches from London made it accessible. After the coming of the railways in the 19th century and the visit of Princess Caroline of Brunswick, the status as a seaside resort grew.
When you visit Southend-on-Sea
You can visit Southend-on-Sea places and use Walkfo Southend-on-Sea to discover the history & things to do in Southend-on-Sea whilst walking with our free digital tour app. Walkfo Southend-on-Sea has 56 places on our Southend-on-Sea map with history, culture & travel facts that you explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Southend-on-Sea, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route – you choose where you want to go, when you want to go and Walkfo Southend-on-Sea will keep up. – With millions of places including tourist walks, Southend-on-Sea travel destinations, National Trust locations converted to audio experiences, our Southend-on-Sea places AI guide will help you get the best from your visit to Southend-on-Sea & the surrounding areas. The Southend-on-Sea places app for iPhone & Android delivers hidden history, interesting culture and amazing facts in interactive audio stories in response to where you walk at National Heritage sites, tourist attractions, historic locations or city streets, with no predefined walk map requirements.
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 56 audio facts unique to Southend-on-Sea places forming an interactive Southend-on-Sea map for you to explore.”
Walkfo Southend-on-Sea tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Southend-on-Sea
Best Southend-on-Sea places to visit
Southend-on-Sea has many places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Southend-on-Sea’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Southend-on-Sea’s information audio spots:
Southchurch Park Southchurch Park is a recreational park in the parish of Southchurch, Southend-on-Sea, Essex. The park is 12 hectares (30 acres) in area and contains sports pitches, formal gardens, a boating lake and a café.
Southchurch Hall Southchurch Hall is Grade I Listed Medieval moated house located in Southchurch, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. The Hall was home to farming families until the 1920s. In 1930 it was extensively restored and presented to the town by the Dowsett Family.
Southend Manor F.C. Southend Manor Football Club are currently members of the Essex Senior League and play at Southchurch Park. The club are currently a football club based in Essex, England.
Radio Essex Radio Essex is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to Essex, England via DAB and Mid and South Essex via FM, from studios in The Icon Building on Southend Seafront.
Southchurch Southchurch is a district of Southend-on-Sea in Essex. It was an independent parish until 1897 and has a documented history dating back to the 9th century.
The Railway Hotel, Southend The Railway Hotel is a pub in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. It is known for its live music and its vegan food. Wilko Johnson, David Bowie & Iggy Pop collaborator Geoff MacCormack and Teenage Fanclub drummer Brendan O’Hare attend.
The Ratman of Southend The Ratman of Southend-on-Sea, Essex, is an English urban legend. The story of the Ratman tells of an old homeless man seeking shelter from the cold in an underpass. He was set upon by a group of youths and beaten to near-death, cold and blood loss doing the rest.
Southend-on-Sea War Memorial Southend-on-Sea War Memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. It was unveiled by Lord Lambourne, the Lord Lieutenant of Essex and dedicated by the Bishop of Colchester on 27 November 1921. The memorial as-built is in the form of an obelisk flanked by stone flags and surrounded by a low screen wall.
Southend Central Museum The Central Museum is a museum in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. The museum was opened in April 1981 in a Grade II listed building that was previously Soutshend’s first free public library.
Havens (department store) Havens department store is a Grade II listed building based in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. It was the only remaining independent department store based in the borough of Southend on-Sea.
Visit Southend-on-Sea plaques
3 plaques hereSouthend-on-Sea has 3 physical plaques within tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Southend-on-Sea plaques when visiting. Plaque schemes such as National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened. Where a plaque is available, Walkfo AI has done research to provide additional, deeper content when you visit Southend-on-Sea using the app. Experience hidden history & stories at each location as the Walkfo local tourist guide app uses trigger audio close to each Southend-on-Sea plaque. Explore Southend-on-Sea Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Southend-on-Sea audio walks & tours
Walkfo is a free app that guides you around things to do / places to visit in Southend-on-Sea. Explore as you wish, as you would do an art gallery or museum, and when you walk close to any of the 56 locations, our digital tour guide will provide history, culture & travel facts in audio form. With headphone connected, you can explore Southend-on-Sea freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Southend-on-Sea Map App
Our visit Southend-on-Sea map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Southend-on-Sea & surrounding areas using the Walkfo digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has plaque, building, street or area information on history, culture or tourism.
You can set your Walkfo’s Southend-on-Sea tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Southend-on-Sea centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Southend-on-Sea area at LONG:0.71, LAT:51.55.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Southend-on-Sea, go to your App Store to search for “Walkfo” or follow a links below and install on your mobile phone. Walkfo is designed for use with headphones or AirPods, so you can walk & explore whilst learning about the things around you without digital distraction.
Things to do & visit in Southend-on-Sea / surrounding areas
● St Laurence and All Saints Church, Eastwood ● Eastwood, Essex ● Kursaal (amusement park) ● Southchurch Park ● Southchurch Hall ● Southend Manor F.C. ● Rage (roller coaster) ● Adventure Island (amusement park) ● Brightwells ● Radio Essex ● New Empire Theatre ● Southend Cliff Railway ● Southchurch ● Cliff Town Congregational Church ● The Railway Hotel, Southend ● Prittlewell Square ● J L Dixons ● Southend-on-Sea Corporation Tramways ● The Ratman of Southend ● Southend Stadium ● Southend-on-Sea War Memorial ● Southend Central Museum ● Genting Casino Westcliff ● Our Lady Help of Christians and St Helen’s Church, Westcliff-on-Sea ● Thorpe Bay ● Beecroft Art Gallery ● Cliffs Pavilion ● Westcliff-on-Sea ● Southend-on-Sea ● Prittlewell
● Havens (department store) ● Southend Leisure & Tennis Centre ● Roots Hall ● Garon Park ● Prittlewell royal Anglo-Saxon burial ● Camp Bling ● Prittlewell Priory ● Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea ● Fossetts Farm Stadium ● Two Tree Island ● Belton Hills ● Leigh-on-Sea ● Southend University Hospital ● Southend and District Reform Synagogue ● Chalkwell Park ● Chalkwell ● St Clement’s Church, Leigh-on-Sea ● Danish Camp ● Shoeburyness Depot ● Gunners Park and Shoebury Ranges ● Shoeburyness ● Shoeburyness Old Ranges ● Pig’s Bay ● North Shoebury
Getting to / around Southend-on-Sea – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Southend-on-Sea using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Southend-on-Sea places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
London Southend Airport was developed from the military airfield at Rochford, opened as a civil airport in 1935 . It now offers scheduled flights to destinations across Europe, corporate and recreational flights .
Local Southend-on-Sea historians & Southend-on-Sea tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Southend-on-Sea? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Southend-on-Sea’s places, attractions & landmarks ability to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & using our simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. – Creating a new audio experience for your Southend-on-Sea place is free* and quick (15+ minutes if you prepare text content) to use, with Walkfo Creator doing the hard work of generating AI audio files for geo-spots from the text you provide with a simply click on a map. – The 100 Amazing Southend-on-Sea Places is just one example of an outdoor museum created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) for people to safely explore during Covid-19 times whilst visiting a city. Our tool is open to tourism organisations, travel destinations & National Trust locations to create their own audio walks to offer free when people visit Southend-on-Sea destinations. – Walkfo itself is looking to partner with websites offering things-to-do / what’s on events listings to enhance the content of our ‘visit-Southend-on-Sea’ web pages (for example: www.visitSouthend-on-Sea.com). If you are interested in partnering, please contact us to discuss options.
* Walkfo Creator is free to use for a limited number of audio spots within a map with a license fee applicable when more than 20 audio spots within location walk are created. v1.131
Visit Southend-on-Sea places on a day-trip, weekend away or holiday – and Walkfo becomes your personal digital tour guide to Southend-on-Sea things to do.
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