It’s at the seaside, on the North Kent coast and the furthest reaches of the Thames Estuary, which makes it easy from London – one of the things it’s famous for.
The pebble beaches are never going to be the best for making sandcastles but there’s a great bar & restaurant scene and a thriving albeit controversial oyster business. The town is also home to its historic asphalt plant that continues to cling to the shoreline, rising behind a row of beach huts looking the other way.
Although the town’s original beach huts trace their origins from fisherman’s huts, these ones, on Tankerton Slopes, have their roots in holiday making and the Marine Hotel of 1895. Three deep and in private ownership they are still in demand.
