Shoeburyness

Also known as Shoebury

Shoeburyness ( ), or simply Shoebury, is a coastal town in the City of Southend-on-Sea, in the ceremonial county of Essex, England; it lies east of the city centre. It was formerly a separate town until it was absorbed into Southend in 1933.

Key facts

UK place.official_name: Shoeburyness
UK place.country: England
UK place.region: East of England
UK place.static_image_name: File:Shoebury Ness from the air - geograph.org.uk - 3069061.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption: Shoeburyness from the air
UK place.population: 22,275
UK place.population_ref: (2018 mid-census)
UK place.os_grid_reference: TQ941851
UK place.label_position: top
UK place.post_town: SOUTHEND-ON-SEA
UK place.postcode_area: SS
UK place.postcode_district: SS3
UK place.dial_code: 01702
UK place.constituency_westminster: Southend East and Rochford
UK place.unitary_england: Southend-on-Sea
UK place.lieutenancy_england: Essex

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Wikidata facts

Population: 22275
Image: Shoeburyness Hotel, High Street, Shoeburyness. - geograph.org.uk - 299771.jpg
Dialing code: 01702

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Commons category: Shoeburyness
OS grid reference: TQ941851
postal code: SS3
P8168: Josef Schümmelfelder

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In Saxon times, the area was called Shoebury. Sometime between 1086 and the thirteenth century, it was divided into two parishes: North Shoebury and South Shoebury. The two villages remained small rural settlements until the 1850s, when a barracks was established in the parish of South Shoebury, later becoming MoD Shoeburyness. A garrison town, known as Shoeburyness, grew around the barracks, taking its name from the ness on the coast at the southern end of the parish. Shoeburyness railway station opened in 1884, as the eastern terminus of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway.