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Brightlingsea Harbour in Brightlingsea, Essex is a small mixed leisure and commercial port with a rich heritage going back, located within a nature conservation area of international importance, just a day sail from most ports on the Thames estuary. Ideally situated in Brightlingsea Creek close to the mouth of the Colne Estuary where it meets the Blackwater and Thames Estuaries, the harbour has around 500 berths and moorings, and welcomes visiting boats. Facilities include diesel fuel from a floating barge berth and laundry facilities, dinghy storage in the boat park in either hard standing spaces or racks, fresh water, launching over the town hard, maintenance posts located on the Town Hard, sewerage pump out systems, showers and waste disposal. Brightlingsea Harbour offers water taxi services, a waterside marina and sailing clubs, it's all here.READ MORE

The North London Sailing Association or NLSA has a residential sailing base in Brightlingsea, Essex and is an RYA training centre offering RYA courses by their sister organisation the North London Youth Sailing Trust or NLYST. The can accommodate groups of up to 18 members at the Old Custom House with simple but comfortable dormitories or two person cabins, with central heating, showers and drying facilities, run on a self catering basis with everyone contributing to domestic activities. The North London Sailing Association also runs several dinghy cruising weekends a year for members usually sailing Wayfarers which are excellent sea boat with good stability and great sailing performance, and sailing is usually day cruising to one of the many destinations on the Colne or Blackwater estuaries.READ MORE

The Brewers Arms in Brightlingsea, Essex is a traditional pub, gaming room and bed and breakfast housed in a historical 17th century building for a wonderful exerience. This traditional British pub offers cosy bed and breakfast accommodation, has a large patio area at the front of the building, free parking, real ales and a gaming room and families and dogs are welcome. The Brewers Arms welcomes you to stop by and enjoy a drink or two or a memorable stay in one of their luxurious and cosy rooms with TV, tea and coffee facilities, WIFI access and more, plus a delicious selection of breakfast items in the morning, as they say, you might find it hard to leave.READ MORE

The Waterside Marina in Brightlingsea, Essex is situated in Brightlingsea Creek close to the mouth of the Colne Estuary offering seasonal and visitor berths. Facilities and services are many and include showers, fuel, free WIFI, laundry facilities, and a sewage pump out system. The Waterside Marina office is situated on the Waterside Marina development, and staff can be contacted on VHF Channel 80, they look forward to welcoming you soon to their warm and friendly atmosphere, and hope you enjoy your stay. READ MORE

Colne Yacht Club in Brightlingsea, Essex is one of the finest yacht clubs on the East Coast with stunning views over the Brightlingsea Creek, the River Colne and the Blackwater Estuary. Facilities include a restaurant with great meals for everyone and an extensive wine list as well as balcony dining, and the open Sunday Carvery welcomes all and is not to be missed. This is the perfect venue for weddings, conferences and birthdays with panoramic views over the Brightlingsea Creek. Colne Yacht Club has a boatyard for secure winter storage, power and water as well as a private floating pontoon jetty with launching trollies, plus there's an oar store and water taxi service as well as WIFI. Bateman's Tower, built in 1883 is used exclusively by Colne Yacht Club for race officer duties for races on the River Colne and its estuary, and is located at the entrance to Brightlingsea Creek. Members enjoy everything this fine yacht club has to offer, and visitors are welcome.READ MORE

Brightline Villas now part of DLR Properties in Brightlingsea, Essex is a UK based international estate agent for apartments, properties and villas along the spectacular Spanish Costa Blanca. Offering properties for sale in picturesque areas, browse their databases and see what you like, they specialise in Spanish real estate on the Costa Blanca. Brightline Villas are available to assist you in finding your dream home, holiday villa, business investment or ideal Spanish property, and will make all the arrangements for viewing the property in Spain, you can even combine your visit with a holiday. They can arrange your accommodation and assist with searching for the best flight suited to your needs.READ MORE

Brightlingsea One Design are beautiful boats that were first launched in 1928, and as they say, are by no means old fashioned. These true classics offer fantastic racing for crews and the main body of the fleet is based in Brightlingsea, Essex, some kept on swinging moorings in the harbour, and others dry sail from the Brightlingsea Boat Park and Ride. With a generous rig, the Brightlingsea One Design is great in light airs and makes for an exciting sail on breezy days, and can also sail and surf downwind in the right conditions. Most of the boats have a traditional wooden clinker construction, and with a major restoration programme in recent years, they are in excellent condition. In recent years, the introduction of glass fibre has ensured their characteristics and performance match the wooden boats. Owning your own is ideal for someone who enjoys doing their own maintenance and they are perfect for racing crews, family and friends.READ MORE

The University Community Sailing Club in Brightlingsea, Essex serves to promote and facilitate the sport of amateur sailing and water-sports as they say, and are an affiliate of the Royal Yachting Association or RYA. They are also a supporter of the Royal National Lifeboat Institute or RNLI and membership at the University Community Sailing Club includes full voting rights and eligibility for boat storage, they also welcome visitors who may use the club facilities for one day after being signed in by a club member. The club is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and regularly hosts events and social programmes for the whole family, so come for some fun and celebrate with them.READ MORE

Victus Bistros in Brightlingsea and two other Essex venues offers a relaxed dining experience with attentive and experienced staff, locally sourced meals from a great menu and welcoming drinks. Located in the centre of Brightlingsea high street, there's a modern dining area and bar with comfortable sofas for enjoying small plates, drinks and cocktails, and the fish dishes on the restaurant menu are sourced locally with the meat being prepared themselves. Victus Bistros also love catering for weddings and events, and experienced staff ensure perfection whether it's a formal wedding reception or informal barbeque, buffet or hog roast, your dream day is guaranteed and your event tailored to your personal needs and requirements.READ MORE

Brightlingsea Boat Park and Ride offers a park and ride facility for sports and fishing boats up to 26 feet with great security including 24 hour CCTV and an undercover storage area. All you need to do is turn up, and they'll hitch up one of their tractors to your trailer, take you to the water and launch you, so you can spend the day out on the water fishing, boating, swimming and playing, and when you're ready to come back, call them and they will have a tractor waiting for you without even having to get your feet wet. Brightlingsea Boat Park and Ride has male and female shower facilities and changing rooms, a comfortable reception area with snacks and drinks, and are open seven days a week. Their store has new and used boats for sale, watersports equipment, ribs and inflatables as well as outboards, as well as a service centre with full workshop facilities, a boating academy and classic dinghy sailing, it's all here.READ MORE

The Coach House Coffee Shop in Brightlingsea, Essex is located in a converted Coach House that was originally a Victorian watering hole right at the waters edge, on the edge of the Hard. Here they serve great coffee and excellent meals in casual and relaxed surrounds with art on the walls and well behaved pets welcome. The Coach House Coffee Shop has an outside courtyard and they are open from breakfast, come for brunch, great daily specials, lunch and more in an ideal location near the yacht harbour, the sailing club and ferry. The Coach House Coffee Shop also has an upstairs newly opened loft which sells divine scarves and handbags, come for a wonderful experience.READ MORE

Ye Olde Swan in Brightlingsea, Essex offers warm hospitality, a licensed bar and a wonderful stay in this traditional place, in one of the oldest buildings in town. The property dates back to the 13th century, and although extended in the 19th century, still features some of the original beams. Room choices at Ye Olde Swan include single, twin and doubles some with shared bathrooms and others with en-suites, and all come with television, tea and coffee and towels. Before heading out exploring, start your day with a delicious full English breakfast which is included in all rates.READ MORE

Brightlingsea Boat Maintenance in Brightlingsea, Essex offers a boat yard you can trust covering from storage, to transport to maintenance, and they are committed to great service, honesty, quality and value. With quick turnaround time and high quality service, they undertake all repairs from traditional wooden boats to GRP repairs and services including scrub on posts, a pressure wash, anti-fouling, painting, polishing and varnishing, mast raising and lowering, tugboat launching and mast climbing. Brightlingsea Boat Maintenance also offer boat sales and boat yard storage facilities for long or short term storage and can provide portable tented storage for boats up to 20 feet, as well as have winter boat storage packages.READ MORE

The Brightlingsea Motel offers a wonderful stay with room choices of single, double or twin, and deluxe or family options all including a delicious cooked breakfast and limitations or curfew. Located in the heart of Brightlingsea, this smart, independent motel ensures a comfortable stay with spotless rooms and showers, and comes highly recommended. The Brightlingsea Motel is like a home away from home with friendly owners, great facilities en-suite showers, gel, soap, towels, WIFI, secure parking and much more, come for the perfect stay.READ MORE

The Rosebud Pub is a traditional English pub in Brightlingsea, Essex located on the village green with glorious sea views across open farmland. This busy little pub offers freshly prepared, home cooked meals with great starter choices, and mains of home roasted ham, home made pie of the day, freshly battered calamari, wholetail scampi, King Prawns, filler of salmon, freshly buttered haddock and chips, surf and turf, steaks, lamb, pasta and much more. The Rosebud Pub also features a small conservatory leading into their beer garden, which is the perfect venue and ideal space for small functions including birthdays, anniversaries, parties, wakes and more, come for a wonderful dining and drinking experience or event.READ MORE

The Royal British Legion in Brightlingsea, Essex is one of the UK's largest membership organisations where everyone is welcome whether they have served in the armed forces or not. Here in Brightlingsea they offer entertainment twice a month with light refreshments available at the bar, and the opportunity of joining the darts and pool teams, plus they have Sky Sports and ESPN for live sports. The Royal British Legion also have a function room available which can be hired to host events with separate entrance and kitchen facilities, own toilets, a stairlift, bar, music and catering, which is suitable for birthdays, Christenings, anniversary parties, small weddings, meetings and wakes.READ MORE

The Raj Pavilion is an award winning Indian restaurant, and the finest Bangladeshi restaurant and take away in Brightlingsea, Essex. This top restaurant offers sublime Indian food and take aways and are open for a four course Sunday Buffet in the restaurant with papadom and pickle tray, choice of starter, main, pilau rice or plain nan. The Raj Pavilion also features banquet nights with set menus and their main menu includes delectable starter choices, tandoori special dishes marinated in yoghurt sauce and herbs and barbecued in a fired clay oven. They also serve biriani dishes and Raj specialties and Raj special Balti dishes, chicken dishes, lamb dishes, vegetarian options, seafood, king prawn dishes, fish dishes and English dishes, Indian breads, desserts and sides, come for an unbelievable dining experience.READ MORE

Brightlingsea Sailing Club is one of the largest and friendliest sailing clubs in the east of England offering an excellent sailing programme and active social scene. The clubs offers terrific sailing in sheltered waters for dinghies, catamarans and windsurfers, catering to novices and national champions. Brightlingsea Sailing Club boasts a number of Olympic winners and has its own integrated sailing and powerboat schools run by RYA qualified instructors, come for a trial session or one of their taster sessions or open days, and find out which boat is for you. There's an on-site galley staffed by great chefs, and a cheap bar, and they constantly host fabulous events, so come develop your sailing skills and enjoy all that this club has to offer. READ MORE

Sophie Lea Fishing Charters in Brightlingsea, Essex welcomes you onboard the Sophie Lea 11, a new fast and stable catamaran, and one of the fastest boats on the east coast. Equipped with modern electronics, fish finders and plotters, satellite navigation, a comfortable deck space, a bait station, walk around island wheel house and much more, all the features ensure a fantastic time out on the water. Sophie Lea Fishing Charters are available for corporate days out with clients and a typical fishing trip includes a days fishing charter, dead baits, rod and tackle use, coffee, tea, soft drinks and tuition if required. They also have gift vouchers for the perfect gift on this great charter boat.READ MORE

The Brightlingsea Museum in Brightlingsea, Essex promoted and preserves the history of the town from it's people to it's industries from Roman times to present day. Come view the fascinating displays of artefacts from a local Roman settlement, the Oyster industry and stowboating, ship and boat building, Brightlingsea in the World Wars, the railway line to Wivenhoe and Brightlingsea's role as a Limb of the Cinque Port of Sandwich. The Brightlingsea Museum also holds a variety of events annually, children's activities and programmes and is open from Easter to the last weekend in September. They also provide resources for research and feature a wide selection of photographs, artefacts and memorabilia.READ MORE

Lucas Estates established all the way back in 35 are Brightlingsea's original local estate agents and valuers, and today are located in a prominent central location. All agents and members of the team have extensive knowledge of the area both in property sales and the rental market. Lucas Estates also offers no obligation valuations and competitive commission rates and if they cannot sell or rent your property, then you don't pay, and they cover Brightlingsea, Thorrington and surrounding areas. They also have and independent financial mortgage advisor who would be happy to meet with you, contact them for all your property needs.READ MORE