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Leigh-on-Sea

Leigh-on-Sea is a beautiful old fishing port on the London side of on the south coast of . Visitor venues in Leigh can be divided into three zones.
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  • Type: Town with 22,600 residents
  • Description: area and civil parish in Essex, England
  • Also known as: “Leigh”, “Leigh on Sea”, “Leigh-on-Sea, Essex”, and “Leigh, Essex”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Two Tree Island and Leigh-on-Sea railway station.

Island
Photo: Edward Clack, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small island lying north-east of and south-west of Leigh-on-Sea in , England. It covers 257 hectares and is connected to the mainland at Leigh by a single span bridge.

Railway station
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is on the London, Tilbury and Southend line, serving the town of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. It is 32 miles 43 chains down the main line from via and it is situated between to the west and to the east.

Railway station
Photo: John Myers, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is on the London, Tilbury and Southend line, serving the locality of in , Essex. It is 33 miles 69 chains down the main line from via and it is situated between to the west and to the east.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Canvey Island and Hadleigh.

Photo: Oneblackline, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town, civil parish and reclaimed island in the , near , in the Castle Point district, in the county of , England.

Town
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is a town and former civil parish that is within the borough of Castle Point, located in the southeast of the county of , England, on the A13 between , and Leigh-on-Sea with a population of 18,300.

Suburb
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Southend-on-Sea is a seaside resort about 40 miles east of at the mouth of the River Thames Estuary. It's famous for its Victorian pleasure pier, the longest in the world!

Leigh-on-Sea

Latitude
51.5421° or 51° 32′ 32″ north
Longitude
0.6474° or 0° 38′ 51″ east
Population
22,600
Elevation
125 feet (38 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB LOS
Open location code
9F32GJRW+RX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27584855
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2644658
Wiki­data ID
Q541590
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Leigh-on-Sea” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لي أون سي”
  • Armenian: “Լի-օն-Սի”
  • Asturian: “Leigh-on-Sea”
  • Azerbaijani: “Li-on-Si”
  • Basque: “Leigh-on-Sea”
  • Bengali: “লেহ-অন-সী”
  • Catalan: “Leigh-on-Sea”
  • Cebuano: “Leigh-on-Sea”
  • Chinese: “滨海利”
  • Chinese: “滨海利镇”
  • Chinese: “濱海利”
  • Chinese: “濱海利鎮”
  • Czech: “Leigh-on-Sea”
  • Dutch: “Leigh-on-Sea”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لى اون سى”
  • French: “Leigh-on-Sea”
  • Georgian: “ლი-ონ-სი”
  • German: “Leigh-on-Sea”
  • Gujarati: “લેઇ-ઓન-સી”
  • Hebrew: “לי-און-סי”
  • Irish: “Leigh-on-Sea”
  • Italian: “Leigh-on-Sea”
  • Japanese: “リー＝オン＝シー”
  • Japanese: “レイ・オン・シー”
  • Kannada: “ಲೇಘ್-ಆನ್-ಸೀ”
  • Korean: “레이-온-씨”
  • Ladin: “Leigh-on-Sea”
  • Latin: “Lega”
  • Lithuanian: “Li on Sea”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leigh-on-Sea”
  • Ossetian: “Ли-он-Си”
  • Persian: “لی-آن-سی”
  • Polish: “Leigh-on-Sea”
  • Portuguese: “Leigh-on-Sea”
  • Romanian: “Leigh-on-Sea”
  • Russian: “Ли-он-Си”
  • Silesian: “Leigh-on-Sea”
  • Slovak: “Leigh-on-Sea”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لی-آن-سی”
  • Spanish: “Leigh-on-Sea, Essex”
  • Spanish: “Leigh-on-Sea”
  • Spanish: “Leigh, Essex”
  • Spanish: “Leigh”
  • Swedish: “Leigh-on-Sea”
  • Tamil: “லெயி -ஆன் -ஸீ”
  • Telugu: “లై-ఆన్-సీ”
  • Urdu: “لیگھ-ون-سیا”
  • Volapük: “Leigh-on-Sea”
  • Welsh: “Leigh-on-Sea”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Leigh-on-Sea”. Photo: Chris j wood, CC BY-SA 4.0.