ALL SAINTS. 1873-82 by H. Stone (GR).
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE. Old Walton has been swallowed up by the sea, its church having vanished in 1798. The estates about this church belonged to St Paul’s Cathedral and over one of the stalls we found the Latin words meaning Overthrown by the Sea instead of the customary name of the manor. Today Walton is a watering-place with smooth wide sands and a pier which we understand is the second longest in England, the longest also being in Essex, at Southend.
The geologist will find many fossils in its Red Crag beds; the archaeologist will find traces of a factory in which men of the Stone Age shaped their tools and weapons; the historian must note that hereabouts (in what we now call Frinton) was established the first telephone communication with a lighthouse.
On the bold promontory of the Naze stands a lofty tower built by Trinity House as a seamark in the days of the Napoleon wars.
The geologist will find many fossils in its Red Crag beds; the archaeologist will find traces of a factory in which men of the Stone Age shaped their tools and weapons; the historian must note that hereabouts (in what we now call Frinton) was established the first telephone communication with a lighthouse.
On the bold promontory of the Naze stands a lofty tower built by Trinity House as a seamark in the days of the Napoleon wars.
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