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The Brightlingsea Rugby Club, play their home games at Strangers Corner. [ citation needed] Notable residents [ edit ]

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When we measure for forecast air pressure we are normally doing this relative to a certain height and most commonly relative to Mean Sea Level. In 2007, one of twenty reserve schemes of Sustrans's Connect2 scheme was a new swing bridge over Alresford Creek. This could give an alternative crossing over the waters around Brightlingsea but by December 2020 no further plans or funding were apparent, whilst Alresford Creek is mooring for fifty pleasure yachts. [28] Education [ edit ] a b "Key Figures for 2011 Census: Brightlingsea". Office for National Statistics (Neighbourhood Statistics). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 30 August 2015.This is the average number of seconds between one wave and the next, 1-2 miles out to sea. A long wave Reference Location Proposal RR/2023/2128/L Holly Tree Cottage, Hollingrove Hill, TN325FE Internal repairs including the removal of water damaged materials/ fitments in bathroom, kitchen, skirting boards, floor tiles to be inspected and replaced on a like for like basis RR/2023/2117/P Coldharbour Farm – Units At, Battle Road, TN21 9LQ Creation of a temporary car park at … Continued J P Foynes "Brightlingsea in the Great War"—published 1994, "The Australians at Brightlingsea"—new edition 2011; records of UK National Archive, Australian National Archives; Australian War Memorial, etc. During the Great War, the Royal Navy maintained a naval base in the town (HMS Wallaroo, later HMS City of Perth), from where it installed, guarded, and maintained the booms and nets protecting the Swin Anchorage [ citation needed]. The anchorage was periodically used by a squadron of battleships, including HMS Dreadnought, and served as the launchpad for the raid on Zeebrugge and Ostend in 1918 [ citation needed]. Brightingsea also provided an army engineer training facility from 1916 to 1919 when it hosted the training of all ANZAC field engineers sent to the Western Front. From 1941, local shipyards equipped and repaired motor torpedo boats, motor gunboats, and motor launches for the Royal Navy's Coastal Forces [ citation needed]. Between 1942 and 1944 areas of Brightlingsea Creek and Point Clear formed a large landing craft training area [ citation needed]. Local shipyards concurrently built small craft for the Royal Navy and RAF, and thousands of pontoons for the British Army [ citation needed].

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Feels like temperature considers other factors, such as wind speed and humidity. This gives you a better The Wivenhoe and Brightlingsea railway opened in 1866 and was a branch line that operated rail services from the nearby town of Wivenhoe into the town centre of Brightlingsea. Brightlingsea railway station was located on the southern side of Lower Park Road where the town's community centre now sits. It stayed in place for four years after the railway's closure until it was destroyed by fire in 1968. [ citation needed] Being almost totally surrounded by the Colne Estuary, Brightlingsea Creek & salt marsh, Brightlingsea's road links are unusually limited for a town of its size, with only one road linking the town with the outside. During the North Sea Flood of 1953 Brightlingsea was cut off from the outside, though the town itself was not as severely affected as some neighbouring communities. [ citation needed] Brightlingsea to Alresford [ edit ]The Cinque Ports were a confederation of the five most important ports on the coast of the English Channel. They had obligations to provide ships and men to fight for the king in times of war for which they were compensated by lucrative exemptions from taxation. [8] All of the Cinque Ports acquired limbs or subsidiary ports that would ease the burden of their wartime obligations and share the benefits of their privileges. Brightlingsea became a limb of the head port of Sandwich, and is the only community outside Kent and Sussex that has any connection with the Confederation of the Cinque Ports. [9] Although these days it is a purely ceremonial affair, every year at the parish church on the first Monday after Saint Andrew's Day, known as Choosing Day, the Freemen of Brightlingsea gather to elect the Deputy of Brightlingsea who is the representative of the Mayor of Sandwich in the Liberty. [10] Wars against France (1793–1815) [ edit ] Remember that at an auction it is up to you, the bidder, to satisfy yourself about the condition of an item. Ask for additional photos and a condition report if you need them.

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Brightling Café will be open in the village hall for tea, coffee and delicious cake this comingSaturday 28thOctober 10am-Noon. Judy fromAsselton Cakeswill be selling her homemade cakes, savouries and preserves. There will be Halloween biscuits for children to decorate, as well as the garden for them to play in if the weather is fine, so … Continued Brightlingsea is home to the Colne Community School, a secondary school which serves an extended catchment area which includes Wivenhoe, Alresford, Great Bentley, Thorrington as well as Brightlingsea itself. Ex-principal Terry Creissen, who now resides in Qatar with his family, was honoured (whilst still in the position of headmaster at the Colne) with an OBE. The next Principal of the Colne Community School, Nardeep Sharma, was also awarded an OBE in 2016.An announcement from Joanna Coleman There is no Local Lunch in October due to a number of circumstances. Bev and I look forward to welcoming you to the Christmas Lunch on Wednesday 29th November 2023, please let us know if you wish to attend as numbers are limited. The strongest wind will be experienced on Thursday morning, coming from a south easterly direction, and reaching around 35mph.