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The Landscape
Leigh Statistics
Why Visit Leigh?
Leigh is a costal town built on the Thames Estuary off the North Sea. From sandy beaches and marshland a trip up “The Cliffs” brings you too a picturesque town full of restaurants, pubs and small niche shops. Spreading out from the town centre are many residential properties broken up by trees & parks.
As of 2001: 9,015 people live in Leigh with 5606 people at working age. Leigh’s within the Borough of Southend with a population of 158,800 people and 74,300 households. In 2004 unemployment was at 2.9%. There are approximately 468 km of highways and 13 km of sea -defences.
A beautiful National Nature Reserve, 6 parks and one a golf course is reason enough to visit Leigh. When you add a 15th Century Church, The Grand Hotel (once visited by Laurel and Hardy), a family beach, a warm summer’s day and cold beer in Old Leigh... it’s even easy to stay!
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writers anonymous
In the third year of its incarnation Southend Book Fair is about more than just books. Writers Anonymous and South East Essex College are working together to make the 2009 Southend Book Fair the literary event of the calendar showing how words can work; whether it be for written fiction or fact, orated poetry, spoken ideas or themes, illustrated concepts or plays, or just words set to a musical back drop. Click here for more information.
