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One thing you wrote intrigues me, but you don't explain it - how you came to be in SWF to watch Titanic. I guess it will remain a mystery.
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SWF also used to be one of the few towns whose local gas network was on propane, but eventually was changed to natural gas.
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SWF is a prime example of early Essex Design Guide architecture and planning. The EDG may seem banal, but it's actually been really influential; you can see its influence across the whole country, particularly in new suburban estates; there are bits of Essex from Cornwall to Northumberland!
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The photo of that included 'The Town Crier' gave me vides of Portmeirion where 'The Prisoner' was filmed.
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South Woodham Ferrers has another attraction, Call Of The Wild Zoo, which is open to all!
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I think you'll love the car-dependent, Essex Style Guided sprawl north and east of Chelmsford which will get its own railway station in the next few years.
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My parents bought their first house in South Woodham in the 80s but ultimately it proved too far out of town for my dad who had grown up in London and even too far out for my mum who had grown up in Loughton, particularly as they had been living with my grandparents just off Old Street before this. The poor train service at the time made their commutes to Baker Street and Oxford Street respectively too long and they were too far away from friends and family. They ended up selling after a year and buying a flat in Wanstead.
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I'm getting Poundbury flavours, with less pretentiousness and a watery nosebut .
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If I lived on Hobbiton Hill, I'd definitely have named my house Bag End too!
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That previous visit to see Titanic really ought to have a story behind it. I'm trying to picture the thought processes involved.
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Radar Hill is also now associated with a young life lost to suicide, and the Holly Clacy Foundation set up to remember her and counter bullying.
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A characteristically interesting post. The photos reveal something of a cut-price version of Poundbury in Dorset. Definitely a case of Spar rather than Waitrose.
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The problem with living at Bag End, Hobbiton Hill, is that every time you give your address to a company, they will probably think it is a prank call!
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The book "Where's Woodham Ferris?" by Les Holden is the fictional life story of a lad who joins a sailing barge which plies between Woodham and London and retires to an abandoned hut on these marshes after many nautical exploits. It has something of Baring-Goulds classic "Mehalah".
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South Woodham PREDATES Poundbury by 20 or more years!
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In that case maybe Poundbury is an upmarket version of South Woodham Ferrers!
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...can I hear EBTG's 'Missing' playing in the background along some of this route?
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Anyone liking this kind of thing might enjoy a book my friend wrote a few years ago when he walked the whole Essex coast, using public transport to get to it from the edge of East London in a series of one-day excursions. It's called (unsurprisingly enough) Essex Coast Walk - author P.Caton.
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I passed through SWF in December on my way to Burnham-on-Crouch to repeat a walk out to the sea along the River Crouch. Oddly, I'd done the same walk exactly 11 years earlier. The landscape round there is really striking, I may do the walk you described as well, thanks for writing about it.
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