Little Oakley Channel Deposit, Harwich

Name: Little Oakley Channel Deposit
Address: Harwich, United Kingdom

#10 among attractions in Harwich

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Little Oakley Channel Deposit is a three-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Little Oakley in Essex, England. It is a Geological Conservation Review site. ()

Coordinates: 51°55'16"N, 1°13'52"E

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Harwich United Kingdom

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Little Oakley Channel Deposit – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: High Lighthouse, Electric Palace Cinema, Landguard Fort, Beacon Hill Battery.

2.9 miNE
Lighthouse
High Lighthouse, Harwich
75 min walk • Harwich High and Low Lighthouses are a pair of early 19th-century towers in Harwich, Essex, which were built as leading lights to help guide vessels into the harbour. They replaced an earlier pair of lights established in the seventeenth century when Harwich was a key operational base for the Royal Navy.
3 miNE
Nightlife, Concerts and shows, Cinema
Electric Palace Cinema, Harwich
78 min walk • The Electric Palace cinema, Harwich, is one of the oldest purpose-built cinemas to survive complete with its silent screen, original projection room and ornamental frontage still intact. It was designed by the architect Harold Ridley Hooper of Ipswich, Suffolk and opened on 29 November 1911.
4 miE
Specialty museum, View point, Museum
Landguard Fort, Felixstowe
103 min walk • Landguard Fort is a fort at the mouth of the River Orwell outside Felixstowe, Suffolk, designed to guard the mouth of the river. It is now open to the public.
2.7 miNE
Forts and castles
Beacon Hill Battery, Harwich
71 min walk • Beacon Hill Battery is a late-19th and 20th century coastal fortification that was built to defend the port of Harwich, Essex. It is a scheduled ancient monument.
2.9 miNE
Specialty museum, Museum, Military museum
Harwich Redoubt, Harwich
73 min walk • Harwich Redoubt is a circular fort built in 1808 to defend the port of Harwich, Essex from Napoleonic invasion. The Harwich Society opens it to the public.
4 miE
Park
Landguard Common
103 min walk • Landguard Common is a 30.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Felixstowe in Suffolk. An area of 16.3 hectares at the southern end is also a Local Nature Reserve.
3 miNE
Forest
Ganges Wood, Harwich
78 min walk • Ganges Wood is a woodland in Suffolk, England, near the village of Shotley Gate. It covers a total area of 2.21 hectares. It is owned and managed by the Woodland Trust.
3.6 miNW
Cemetery
Oakfield Wood
93 min walk • Oakfield Wood is a 2.8 hectare nature reserve west of Wrabness in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. This is former farmland which is being converted into a "green burial ground", overlooking the Stour Estuary.
4.3 miNE
Park
Trimley Marshes, Felixstowe
111 min walk • Trimley Marshes is a 77 hectare nature reserve west of Trimley St Mary, on the outskirts of Felixstowe in Suffolk. It is managed by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust.
1.7 miNW
Park
Copperas Wood
45 min walk • Copperas Wood is a 13.8 hectare nature reserve between Ramsey and Wrabness in Essex. It is owned and managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust, and is part of the Stour and Copperas Woods, Ramsey Site of Special Scientific Interest.
3.9 miNE
Harbor
Port of Felixstowe
100 min walk • The Port of Felixstowe, in Felixstowe, Suffolk, is the United Kingdom's busiest container port, dealing with 48% of Britain's containerised trade.