Southend Chalkwell

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Southend Chalkwell is a designated estuary bathing water in Essex with a sandy shore. The water was rated Good when last classified. Water quality here can dip after heavy rain. It is one of 19 bathing waters in the county.

For more of the same, Southend Westcliff Bay and Leigh Bell Wharf are close by. Chalkwell Station is under a kilometre away.

More at the Environment Agency's water quality profile

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