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Frinton-on-Sea is a small Seaside Town in Essex , England , in the Tendring district. It is part of the Frinton And Walton parish. Until late Victorian times, only a tiny hamlet existed with a church, several farms and a handful of cottages. Then, the whole area was purchased by a developer with a view to building an exclusive seaside town for the wealthy to holiday in. Due to this beginning, the town has a particularly conservative nature - even today: until recently the town made boast of having no public houses within its confines. Frinton only has 2 points of entry by road, one being an unadopted road coming from Walton in the north or through the railway gates. Certain people maintain that you are only a proper Frintonian if you live on the seaward side of these gates. Once geographically distinct, a series of housing estate developments now line the roads between the towns of Frinton and Walton and the villages of Kirby Cross and Kirby-Le-Soken. Within their now informally aggregated boundaries live many thousands of people. Frinton has excellent shopping facilites. Once described as 'The Bond Street of East Anglia', its singular shopping street Connaught Avenue still has many small private shops, national chains and almost all high street banks. In 1992, the first Fish and Chip shop was opened in Frinton. Named "Nice Fish and Chips", it met much disapproval from the local residents who fought its arrival. Since then, in 2000, the first pub opened inside the gates ('The Lock and Barrell'). This was a milestone in the town's history, and the arrival split the town in two between those who insisted that admitting a pub to the town would be the first step to its ruin, and those who desired the practicalities of having somewhere to socialise after 8 or 9pm. An unusual aspect of Frinton in the modern world is the number of active churches it contains. There are two Across the road from St. Mary Magadalene is the evangelical Gospel Chapel; there is a Catholic church (the Church of the Sacred Heart), a Methodist church, a Free church and a hall of Christian Scientists. There is even a small convent of Nuns who founded the St. Philomena's day school (for 4 - 11 year olds). This independent school is now run by a governing body of parents and staff and has 120+ pupils, with an excellent academic record {Link without Title} . Frinton has a modern primary school built within the last ten years; this replaced the ageing and gradually decrepit Victorian board school. A mile outside of 'the Gates' stands Tendring Technology College. This began life in the 1950s as Gunfleet Secondary Modern, later merging at the end of the 1970s with Landermere School in Thorpe-Le-Soken to become Tendring High School. Frinton-on-Sea can be reached by rail (the town is bounded by the Colchester to Walton-on-Naze railway line and has its own station) or bus from Clacton-on-Sea . It has over a mile of sandy Beach with facilities and beach wardens in season and an area of sea zoned for Swimming , Sailing , and Windsurfing . The area above the beach is a wide expanse of grass - the Greensward to give it its proper name. Along with the various elements of the Clacton conurbation, Brightlingsea and Harwich, Frinton/Walton is part of the Essex 'Sunshine Coast', a cheery epithet used to distinguish it from the rest of the Essex coastline which, Southend aside, is wetland and river estuary. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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