Frinton

Frinton-on-Sea
The seafront at Frinton-on-Sea
Frinton-on-Sea
Frinton-on-Sea shown within Essex
OS grid reference	TM236198
Civil parish	Frinton and Walton
District	Tendring
Shire county	Essex
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	FRINTON-ON-SEA
Postcode district	CO13
Dialling code	01255

Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England
EU Parliament	East of England
UK Parliament	Clacton
List of places UK England Essex 51°49′58″N 1°14′43″E / 51.8327°N 1.2452°E / 51.8327; 1.2452Coordinates: 51°49′58″N 1°14′43″E / 51.8327°N 1.2452°E / 51.8327; 1.2452

Frinton-on-Sea is a small seaside town in the Tendring District of Essex, England. It is part of the parish of Frinton and Walton.

Until late Victorian times Frinton-on-Sea was a church, several farms and a handful of cottages. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book. In the 1890s, the original developer of the town, Peter Bruff, was bought out by the industrialist Richard Powell Cooper, who had already laid out the golf course. Powell Cooper rejected Bruff's plans for a pier, stipulated the quality of housing to be built and prohibited boarding houses and pubs. The Sea Defence Act 1903 established a project to stabilise the cliffs, with the Greensward, which separates the Esplanade from the sea, put in place to stabilise the land further.

In the first half of the 20th century, the town attracted visitors from high society with a lido complete with palm trees, shopping with, Connaught Avenue, named after the Duke of Connaught and opened by his wife, being dubbed East Anglia's Bond Street, high class hotels along the Esplanade, a tennis tournament second only to Wimbledon; the Prince of Wales frequented the golf club and Winston Churchill rented a house. Frinton was the last target in England attacked by the Luftwaffe, in 1944.

The town has a reputation for a Conservative nature (although it was in a Labour constituency from 1997 to 2005). Until recently there were no pubs, although there have long been bars in seafront hotels and at the golf and War Memorial clubs. The first pub, the Lock and Barrel, opened in 2000.

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