{"id":1427,"date":"2010-11-07T09:07:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2012-01-04T12:31:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T12:31:05","slug":"southend-on-sea-essex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/11\/07\/southend-on-sea-essex\/","title":{"rendered":"Southend on Sea Essex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large seaside resort and working town located on the Thames Estuary in Essex, <a title=\"Southend-on-Sea Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/southend-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Southend-on-Sea<\/a> has been a popular resort since the early 19<sup>th<\/sup> century. Originally just a group of fishermen\u2019s cottages at the southern end (south end) of the ancient village of Prittlewell, the town now takes in some 7 miles of coastline, pretty much swallowing up the areas of Westcliff, Prittlewell and <a title=\"Leigh-on-Sea Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/leigh-on-sea-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Leigh-on-Sea<\/a>, and has a population of around 165,000. Famous for its pier, which at one and a third miles long, is the world\u2019s longest, Southend reached its zenith in the 1960\u2019s and 1970\u2019s, when it was particularly popular as a day tripper resort. The beach which can get quite busy when the <a title=\"Southend-on-Sea Weather\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/southend-weather.html\" target=\"_blank\">weather<\/a> is fine, is a mixture of shingle and sand , with a good helping of mud thrown in, due to its estuary location. As well as the beach and pier, Southend also has plenty of green areas, with over 1,000 acres of parks and gardens. <a title=\"Map of Essex UK\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/essex-map.html\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Map of Essex UK\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/essex-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Map of Essex<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large seaside resort and working town located on the Thames Estuary in Essex, Southend-on-Sea has been a popular resort since the early 19th century. Originally just a group of fishermen\u2019s cottages at the southern end (south end) of the ancient village of Prittlewell, the town now takes in some 7 miles of coastline, pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7,3],"tags":[192,725,726,724,728,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}