Southend Thorpe Bay

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Southend Thorpe Bay is a designated estuary bathing water in Essex. Its water quality was classed Excellent at the Environment Agency's last classification. It is one of 19 bathing waters in the county.

Thorpe Bay Station is 1.1 km away to the north-east. For more of the same, Shoeburyness and Southend Jubilee are close by.

More at the Environment Agency's water quality profile

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