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Dist:0.2km<br/>At the end of Poynters Lane.
©Julieanne Savage
Dist:0.3km<br/>The public footpath crosses the railway line here.
©Ian Paterson
Dist:0.3km<br/>The footpath between Great Wakering and the seawall is closed during the week when firing takes place on the army ranges. When, as today, the path is open, walkers are warned of the dangers by an array of notices.
©Trevor Harris
Dist:0.3km<br/>Footpath
©Julieanne Savage
Dist:0.4km<br/>The semi-circular sign on top reads 'Parish of North Shoebury', then 'R.R.D.C. Stick No Bills'. You might get away with a Post-It!
©Ian Paterson
Dist:0.4km<br/>Most of the housing development at Cupid's Corner has been post-war, but Victoria Drive was the first estate road to be built and is certainly shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1938.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.7km<br/>
©Ian Paterson
Dist:0.7km<br/>This little tank thing is in a field of mud and debris which is further back, somewhere in the region behind V battery next to the sea wall. There were tracks from it coming up the sea wall and going down into the marsh.
©Julieanne Savage
Dist:0.7km<br/>During Victorian times the War Department extended their interest in the land north from the garrison at Shoebury and developed this area as a gunnery range. An extensive network of military railways was built in the area by the War Department, around the time of the First World War, to transport guns and munitions, and the area is still criss-crossed by the remnants of this trackwork. The track appears to have been totally abandoned in this particular area now, and there is not even any evidence of any withdrawn rolling stock that the site was formerly used for storing.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.7km<br/>Concrete sea defences beside the public footpath through the MOD land. The faint smudge on the horizon is the remains of Shoebury Boom [[302957]], a long structure stretching out into the Thames Estuary.
©Ian Paterson
Dist:0.7km<br/>Beyond the fence is an area of military ranges and army training grounds between here and Shoeburyness which cannot be accessed by the public.
©Trevor Harris
Dist:0.7km<br/>This is the reverse view to Ian's [[792263]] looking down from the sea defence bank. The footbridge in the middle distance crosses a drain that runs parallel to the bank.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.7km<br/>New ranges
©Julieanne Savage
Dist:0.8km<br/>The point on the public footpath where the sea wall looms ahead. Left turn only at the top of the steps.
©Ian Paterson
Dist:0.9km<br/>The train is one of several which are parked seemingly for ever as they are obsolete. What about recycling them? The photograph was taken from the sea wall where there are many "keep out signs"
©Jack Hill

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