# Event Details - **Event Name**: Essex Estuaries - Along the Sea from Dovercourt to Harwich - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 22 May, 2026 at 01:30 pm – Fri, 22 May, 2026 at 04:30 pm (+01:00) - **Event Description**: Laura and Rob Smith walk along the North Sea cliffs into the River Stour, talking of ships and sailors, naval and merchant and Mayflower.About this EventWe walk from the seaside town of Dovercourt along the coast into Harwich at the mouth of the River Stour and estuary beyond. The train journey from London takes 1 hour and 20 minutes and follows the Mayflower Line.Rob will talk about lighthouses, shipyard cranes and the repair yard of Trinity House, who look after navigational aids around the UK. He'll talk about ships built in Harwich, the most famous being the Mayflower, but Thames barges were also constructed here.Laura will talk about seamen in the Age of Sail, whose jobs involved running up rigging during storms, manning guns during battles and enduring boredom in the doldrums. Men (and some women) volunteered for a life at sea in large numbers, and some were forced through impressment when the navy needed them. She'll also mention Arthur Ransome’s intrepid Swallows who Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea and Harwich’s connections to colonies across the Atlantic via the Mayflower. Lord Nelson and Emma Hamilton also figure.We'll take in views across the estuary to the container port at Felixstowe, and the town of Harwich has some fine Georgian architecture and good pubs to explore after the walk.The walk is about two miles and finishes at Harwich Pier, a short walk from Harwich Town Station.Below see your guides for this walk.Laura Agustín is a qualified guide as well as historian and writer keen to tell histories of working people treated like an inanimate mass in conventional accounts. The Naked Anthropologist is her longtime blog. Essex estuaries interest her because they are generally not mentioned as worthy destinations - but they are wonderful! https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/24444f30-011a-11f1-9f54-dfa1d1aacd36-rimg-w987-h740-dc17161a-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/24841750-011a-11f1-83dc-8dac76d29c25-rimg-w986-h740-dc13131b-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/24a6e190-011a-11f1-83dc-8dac76d29c25-rimg-w555-h740-dc2c5b7d-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/harwich/essex-estuaries-along-the-sea-from-dovercourt-to-harwich/100001982003389492 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 17.5, max: 17.5, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Harwich - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Dovercourt Railway Station - **lat**: 51.9387649 - **long**: 1.280579 - **full address**: Dovercourt Railway Station, Kingsway, Harwich, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Essex Estuaries - Along the Sea from Dovercourt to Harwich - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/b482402b3a59d2b6782ba80aa8b22a4734bc22288e0d55b7e0223f5a97a17cb0-rimg-w1024-h759-dc768eab-gmir.jpg?v=1770134734 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Essex Estuaries - Along the Sea from Dovercourt to Harwich being held? - **A:** Essex Estuaries - Along the Sea from Dovercourt to Harwich takes place on Fri, 22 May, 2026 at 01:30 pm to Fri, 22 May, 2026 at 04:30 pm at Dovercourt Railway Station, Kingsway, Harwich, United Kingdom. - **Q**: How much do tickets cost for Essex Estuaries - Along the Sea from Dovercourt to Harwich? - **A:** Tickets for Essex Estuaries - Along the Sea from Dovercourt to Harwich are priced at GBP 18 per person. Here's a full breakdown of available ticket types:Ticket TypePriceAvailabilityGeneral AdmissionGBP 18Available - **Q**: Who is organizing Essex Estuaries - Along the Sea from Dovercourt to Harwich? - **A:** Essex Estuaries - Along the Sea from Dovercourt to Harwich is organized by Laura Agustín. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Essex Estuaries - Along the Sea from Dovercourt to Harwich", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/b482402b3a59d2b6782ba80aa8b22a4734bc22288e0d55b7e0223f5a97a17cb0-rimg-w1024-h759-dc768eab-gmir.jpg?v=1770134734", "startDate": "2026-05-22T13:30:00+01:00", "endDate": "2026-05-22T16:30:00+01:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/harwich/essex-estuaries-along-the-sea-from-dovercourt-to-harwich/100001982003389492", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Dovercourt Railway Station", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Kingsway", "postalCode": "CO12 3AG", "addressLocality": "Harwich", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "51.9387649", "longitude": "1.280579" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Laura and Rob Smith walk along the North Sea cliffs into the River Stour, talking of ships and sailors, naval and merchant and Mayflower.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-02-03", "availabilityEnds": "2026-05-22T16:30:00+01:00", "validFrom": "2026-02-03", "lowPrice": "17.50", "highPrice": "17.50", "price": "17.50", "url": "https://allevents.in/harwich/essex-estuaries-along-the-sea-from-dovercourt-to-harwich/100001982003389492" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-02-03", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-02-03", "url": "https://allevents.in/harwich/essex-estuaries-along-the-sea-from-dovercourt-to-harwich/100001982003389492", "price": "17.50", "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Laura Agustn", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/laura-agustín/21984814", "description": "Laura Agustín has been a writer, researcher and critical historian — not to say rebel —all her life. She has been a Londoner since the 1960s, although she has lived in numerous countries. Author of \nSex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry\n, she has for many years focused on getting the stories out of women marginalised because of being poor, foreign, ‘different’ or doing jobs some folks think are wrong. She spends time in the Manuscript Room of the British Library looking for clues to how women lived 1000 years ago, and couldn’t stop reading even if she wanted to. She is known as \nThe Naked Anthropologist.\nShe has qualified as a tour guide in order to take this focus to the streets, where guided history walks rarely talk about the poor except as objects of charity. " } ] } ] ```