What is recorded here
Naze Tower, Walton-on-the-Naze is a castle, fort or tower in Tendring, England. Perhaps it watched the sea for invaders or marked the coast for passing ships. Maybe its stones still hold the heat of a hundred summer days. Imagine a keeper climbing the stairs at dawn, pulling a lever, and sending a flame across the water.
A named place photographed at this map point in Tendring.
Naze Tower, Walton-on-the-Naze was built in the early 16th century by Sir John Petre, a prominent Tudor courtier and Lord High Treasurer, as a coastal defense and family residence. It is important as one of the few surviving examples of early 16th-century artillery towers in England and marks a key site in the history of coastal fortifications.
Places near here
Beach PillboxesVisitor information · 35 yd
Naze TowerListed building · 46 yd
Walton Hall FarmHeritage place · 109 yd
Barnes SpinneyWood · 1199 yd
John Weston Nature ReserveNature reserve · 1229 yd
Walton Maritime MuseumMuseum · 1251 yd
Walton Maritime Museum, Walton-on-the-Naze, EssexHeritage place · 1366 yd
Monument to Sir Richard Powell Cooper on The Greensward, Frinton-on-SeaMonument or public art · 2.7 mi
Kirby Le Soken War MemorialMemorial · 2.8 mi
New IslandIsland · 2.9 mi
The Dovercourt lighthouses and causewayScheduled monument · 4.6 mi
Hamford water, with wreck of a bargeShipwreck · 4.7 miOther information
Photo: John Davies · CC BY-SA 2.0