Frinton-on-Sea

A fine day for walking along the Essex coast. First, a lap of the path around The Naze - a peninsula shaped like a nose, hence the name. The Naze Tower was built in 1720 as an aid to coastal navigation - a sort of lighthouse without a light. The creeks and inlets of the complicated coastline around the Naze were the setting for one of my favourite childhood books - Arthur Ransome's novel "Secret Water."

We then drove down the coast to Frinton-On-Sea a genteel seaside town, developed in the 1890s by Richard Powell Cooper, who prohibited boarding houses and pubs (although the local hotels and golf clubs had licensed bars.) Today, Frinton has many hundreds of beach huts and a busy beach on a sunny day.