Shoeburyness
Sign in to saveShoeburyness ( ), 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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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.
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.