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Brightlingsea MuseumBrightlingsea Museum

Brightlingsea Museum

A representative collection of objects, photographs and pictures illustrative of the social and economic history of the town and its immediate surroundings over the past 700 years, in particular its Cinque Port connections and role at different times as port, centre for stow boating, its oyster industry, yachting and shipbuilding.

Also showing the history of fishing, yachting, stowboating and oystering and the one-time rail link with Colchester. 2008 also sees an extensive exhibtion of the ships building industry from the early days of the shipwrights to the last of the yards closing in 1988.

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Contact

Mrs Margaret Stone
Tel: 01206 303286
View the Brightlingsea Museum websitewww.brightlingseamuseum.co.uk
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Venue

Brightlingsea Museum

1 Duke Street, Brightlingsea, Essex, CO7 0EA

View the Brightlingsea Museum websitewww.brightlingseamuseum.co.uk

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Map reference: TM 084166  Lat: 51.80931  Long: 1.02288


By Road:
Follow A120 to Colchester. Follow A12 directions to Clacton until these show Brightlingsea.

By Public Transport:
From Colchester North station it is 12 miles to Brightlingsea Museum.