Winchelsea Town & Winchelsea Beach, East Sussex

This is about the only building one can see from the beach at Winchelsea Beach. I think that it is a house. There is certainly absolutely no commercial development at all. An icecream van visits some days and there is a small toilet block, behind the sea wall. Once behind the seawall there are several fairly large static caravan parks and some rather quirky seaside homes, some of which were originally railway carriages.

The human intervention, in the form of breakwaters, to protect the the shoreline from erosion, seems to have largely been left to return to nature.

One of Winchelsea's town gates. Winchelsea is a Cinque Port, at one time one of the key defence points along the south east coast of England. The gates would have been closed at sun down. Now they are no longer there.

A small group of four photos of three pre-grouping railway carriages, that used to be at Winchelsea Beach, in around 2005-6. I haven't been there recently, but the last time I was there, I seem to remember that the area had been smartened up. Whether any of these found their way back to a preservation group I don't know.

Antique railway carriages converted into holiday homes at Winchelsea Beach - photographed in June 1994. Although some of the panelling has been boarded over, this also looks like an ex-SER/SECR carriage.