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Courtsend Essex Map

Traditional county: Essex · District / Borough: Rochford · Region: Eastern

Explore Courtsend, Essex with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Courtsend map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.

Interactive Map of Courtsend, Essex

How to Use This Courtsend, Essex Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Courtsend, Essex, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.

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PlaceCourtsend
Traditional CountyEssex
District / BoroughRochford
RegionEastern
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Latitude51.604925
Longitude0.923089
Place TypeVillage

About Courtsend

Courtsend remains a quiet sentinel of the Essex coast, defined by the vast, salt-scoured horizon that stretches toward the North Sea. It lies 4.7 miles east-south-east of Burnham-on-Crouch (from Burnham-on-Crouch: bearing 107°T, OS grid TR 025 936), and is situated east-north-east of Churchend village. The light here possesses a singular, pearlescent quality, reflecting off the tidal flats where the grey sky meets the mud-slicked earth in an unending, shifting embrace. To the north-north-west, the reed beds of Little Shell Corner and Ware Corner sway under a persistent wind, marking the transition from firm ground to the saline mysteries of the marsh. Courtsend occupies a low-lying geography where the air tastes perpetually of brine and drying silt. The horizon is punctuated by the distant, stark silhouettes of military remnants, echoing a time when the coastline served as a watchful frontier. Across the expansive landscape, the Foulness SSSI exerts a profound silence, its thousands of hectares of protected habitat serving as a sanctuary for migratory birds that navigate by the pull of the tides. Here, the passage of the day is marked not by the chime of a clock, but by the rhythmic advance and retreat of the water against the reclaimed land.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Little Shell Corner (Wetland) — 0.8 mi, 349° NNW
  • Ware Corner (Wetland) — 0.8 mi, 343° NNW
  • World War Ii Minefield Control Tower 940M And Pillbox 980M South East Of Holliwell Farm (Scheduled Monument) — 1.4 mi, 344° NNW
  • Coney Hall Ditch (River) — 1.6 mi, 320° NW
  • Foulness Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 1.7 mi, 168° SSE · 109k acres
  • Deal Hall Brook (River) — 2.1 mi, 308° NW
  • School House Viewpoint (Viewpoint) — 2.6 mi, 276° W
  • Atomic Weapons Research Establishment Foulness Island, 1947 Explosives Storage Area (Scheduled Monument) — 3.2 mi, 249° WSW
  • Half Moon Viewpoint (Viewpoint) — 3.2 mi, 260° W
  • Romano-British Burial Site On Foulness Island (Scheduled Monument) — 3.4 mi, 237° WSW · 7 ha
  • Havengore Maypole (Attraction) — 4.4 mi, 215° SW
  • The Rio (Cinema) — 4.9 mi, 288° WNW
  • Burnham-on-Crouch and District Museum (Museum) — 4.9 mi, 287° WNW
  • Riverside Park (Park) — 5.1 mi, 289° WNW
  • Goldsands Road Pit Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 5.1 mi, 313° NW · 1 ha
  • Seasons Wood (Park) — 5.9 mi, 312° NW
  • Silver Lake (Lake / Reservoir) — 5.9 mi, 330° NNW
  • Mangapp's Farm (Museum) — 5.9 mi, 301° WNW
  • Stannetts Creek (Lake / Reservoir) — 6.1 mi, 259° WSW
  • Weir Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 6.4 mi, 248° WSW
  • Tillingham Village Sign (Public Artwork) — 6.6 mi, 345° NNW
  • Round Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 6.9 mi, 294° WNW
  • East Beach (Beach) — 7.3 mi, 225° SW
  • Steeple Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 7.4 mi, 314° NW
  • Cart and Wagon Shed (Museum) — 8.0 mi, 226° SW
  • Shoebury Common Beach (Beach) — 8.8 mi, 229° SW
  • Chapel of Saint Peter-on-the-Wall (Attraction) — 9.0 mi, 005° N
  • RAF Bradwell Bay Preservation Group (Museum) — 9.3 mi, 004° N
  • Radio Caroline Ross Revenge (Museum) — 9.4 mi, 343° NNW
  • Old House (Attraction) — 9.4 mi, 260° W

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About This Courtsend Map Page

Explore Courtsend, Essex, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.604925, 0.923089. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.

Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.

Page builtAugust 2026
Location dataOS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0.
County dataTraditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography.
CoordinatesWGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data.