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Ensure you check the local tide table as the Strood often floods at high tide.

Secure WW2 bunker that you can still enter (if you're small enough!)

Spring is a great time to visit with carpets of bluebells and wild garlic, beautiful smells

free parking by the viaduct

Beautiful huts from the early period of tourism here in the 1920s.

This area has suffered coastal erosion and the path no longer exists in areas, if the tide was high you have to walk inland like I did around the boating lake. No signs explaining what is happening, the path sign does point inland then a sign after indicates walking route.

There are guided tours available in the holiday season which you can pick up from Flatford Cottage where there is also a pretty decent cafe and a picnic area. Boats are also available for hire and there are short boat tours that will take you on the beautiful Stour as far as Dedham.

Straddling the beautiful River Stour – and therefore both Suffolk and Essex too – Bures a lovely village. Its medieval church of St Mary the Virgin is a fine sight. Walkers can refuel at one of two pubs – the Three Horseshoes or the Eight Bells – and find accommodation at the Old Manse B&B.