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The railway station was built for the Great Eastern Railway and opened on the 9th August 1865. The station buildings represent one of the first attempts by a railway company to apply a rigid standardisation to all elements of a station. It is the onl...

Claremont Pier was built of timber between 1902 and 1903 to the designs of D. Fox. It was originally 760 feet (231.7 metres) and was a popular stopping point for steamers after it was built. Between 1912 and 1913, a pavilion was built at the pier-hea...

A building survey and archaeological evaluation at Clare Priory Church prior to the enlargement of the church helped to demonstrate the sequence of building at this site

Implements found by Dr J S Holden (S1). Formerly recorded as CLA MISC

Mesolithic grey flint tranchet axe with blueish-white patination, also in the South East corner of arable field said to have a heavy concentration of (worked?) surface flint.

Early C15 gold cross and chain found in 1865 during station construction.

WB on Planning Application 399/00 (extension) area c. 15m x 15m stripped of 300mm topsoil to sand/gravel, also footing trenches on E & S sides. Formerly recorded as BRF MISC

Scheduled Monument - House of Austin Friars, founded 1248 by Richard de Clare and probably the first of its order in England.

Pebble Mace.

Ovate hand axe, deep white + mottled grey, over dark grey/black.