Walton-on-the-Naze

For the Surrey town, see Walton-on-Thames.

Walton-on-the-Naze
Walton-on-the-Naze
Walton-on-the-Naze is located in Essex
Walton-on-the-Naze
Walton-on-the-Naze
Location within Essex
Population12,054 
OS grid referenceTM246214
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWALTON ON THE NAZE[1]
Postcode districtCO14
Dialling code01255
PoliceEssex
FireEssex
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Essex
51°50′53″N 1°16′05″E / 51.848°N 1.268°E / 51.848; 1.268

Walton-on-the-Naze is a seaside town on the North Sea coast. It is part of the parish of Frinton and Walton, in the Tendring district in Essex, England. The town is located north of Clacton and south of the port of Harwich; Frinton-on-Sea lies to the south of the town. The town has a population of 12,054, according to the 2011 census;[2] in 1931, the parish had a population of 3,071.[3] The town attracts many visitors; The Naze and the pier are the main attractions.

The parish was earlier known as Eadolfenaesse and then as Walton-le-Soken.[4] The name Walton is a common one meaning a 'farmstead or village of the Britons',[5] while 'Soken' denotes the soke (an area of special jurisdiction) that included Thorpe, Kirby and Walton, which were not under the see of London but under the chapter of St Paul's Cathedral.

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,[6] 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 have been found to be up to 50 million years old. Rocks include red crag and London clay.

  1. ^ The post town name is unhyphenated by Royal Mail. Because only the first 10 characters are given in Mailsort post town lookup tables, the lack of hyphens has the accidental benefit of helping to distinguish unpostmarked mail for WALTON ON THE NAZE from mail addressed to WALTON-ON-THAMES (which is officially hyphenated and has a lookup entry at "WALTON-ON-", though there is no entry for either town at "WALTON ON "). Royal Mail Mailsort Technical website
  2. ^ "Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, East of England, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map, Location, Weather and Web Information". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
  3. ^ "Population statistics Walton le Soken CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  4. ^ "History of Walton on the Naze, in Tendring and Essex | Map and description". Visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
  5. ^ Mills 1998
  6. ^ "End of an era as Thames Coastguard station in Walton closes down today". East Anglian Daily Times. 5 June 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2020.