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Thorpe Bay is a small suburb of Southend-on-Sea in Essex, Southern England, situated on the Thames Estuary. It is under the control of Southend Borough Council. The main shopping area is known as The Broadway, which is a small parade of shops, surrounded by residential 1920s built houses built on a grid pattern. Thorpe Bay railway station is the penultimate on the Fenchurch Street line from London. Consequently a large number of residents travel to London each morning. Thorpe Bay boasts one of the main golf clubs in Southend, the Thorpe Hall Golf Club. Housing along the seafront, which is technically only estuary, is the most expensive. Thorpe Bay Yacht Club and Tennis Club have operated for a number of years from sites across the road from the sea.
Thorpe Bay has no cinema, theatre or any recognisable cultural centre and precious few pubs or restaurants of any note. it has contributed nothing more to the world than a sleepy dormitory for overpaid commuters.
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