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Chalkwell has long been an area of Southend-on-Sea that people aspire to live in.

Wedged in an area south of the London Road between Crowstone Avenue to the East and Woodfield Road to the West and of course, the Thames Estuary to the South, it is close to many great life enhancing amenities.

A walk around Chalkwell will take you past houses with unique designs and styles. In the heart of the ‘Chalkwell Estate,’ are the houses surrounding the green open space in Ridgeway gardens with roads running northerly to Chalkwell Park. This housing stock forms a suburbia with a difference, with its eclectic mix of 1930s-1950s designs. Walking along Kings Road you will see large detached properties standing back from the road and even larger detached houses can be noted as you travel down Chalkwell Avenue to the sea. Some of these house spacious apartments and have great sea view from their perches higher up the hill.

There are several churches in Chalkwell and a walk past St Michaels in Mount Avenue then into Cliff Avenue, Hillside Crescent and Cliff Road will reveal houses, some from the 1920s, following the contours of the hill. Take a short cut from Leigh Road to Chalkwell Station and you will find houses; some huddling close together in terraces and some, detached with ornate gardens, as you get closer to the sea.

Chalkwell Station opened in 1933 and there are, on a weekday, around 144 trains travelling from Chalkwell to London’s Fenchurch Street Station. Being an easy route into London, the ‘C2C line’, as it is known, is dependable and seats are usually available on the daily journey to work in the city less than an hour away.

With Chalkwell Station so close to Chalkwell beaches, it means that Londoners can also walk out of the station and be standing on a beach within an hour of leaving London. These beaches are the ones to go to and the ones the locals use to escape the hustle and bustle of the busier beaches in neighbouring Southend-on-Sea. Leigh-on-Sea’s ‘Old Town’ is just a walk along the tow path and a short walk easterly, will bring you to the ‘Crowstone’ standing just out to sea in a position its held since 1837.

Chalkwell’s schools are a mixture of private and state schools. Chalkwell Hall Infants and Junior Schools are over 100 years old and achieve good Ofsted results. This makes them a popular choice for parents, who will move into the area to gain their children’s admission to the schools. The catchment area mostly follows the boundaries of the area called ‘Chalkwell’.

Another public amenity that lies next to Chalkwell schools is Chalkwell Park. It was formed from the grounds which surround the original 1830’s Chalkwell Hall and was bought in 1901 by the local council. The Hall itself now houses ‘Metal Culture’ which organises the annual arts ‘Village Green’ festival in the park. In the landscaped park there are beautiful walks amidst rose gardens, cricket to watch from the park’s own cricket club, tennis courts and playgrounds to cater for children from tots to teens.

Needless to say, Chalkwell has it all. It is a charming little part of Essex where people live and often do not move away from.