Harwich / Dovercourt Beach

[Erik_the_Viking]

1) Which Beach - Dovercourt

2) Which area - Harwich

3) Is metal detecting allowed - Yes but see note a) below..

4) Is a Permit Required - No

Important additional Info -
a) Tendring Council seem to allow detecting as long as holes are refilled and No digging in dunes or on grassed areas or parks

We tried this beach yesterday, a bit halfheartedly really.
I got a fair few false signals I think, but also it's pretty difficult to dig.
It's like digging builder's rubble, but weighed down with water.

[Erik_the_Viking]

My third trip to Dovercourt, and my first with my new 'Nox 700.
Previously I have never found anything here.
Today, we only covered 100 yards and I found at least 21p! 1 20p piece, 1 Penny. I also found what I think is another penny, and maybe a 2p*, but they're both really crusted up.

My younger son was using the VK30, even he found a couple of coins! I'd like to think it's partly because on our last big dig (on a farm), I really worked that machine out, before passing it on; but I'm not entirely sure about that.

*Confirmed, it is a 2p piece, probably one of the worst examples in the whole world though.

[Oriansbelt]

Thanks for the tips guys. I am a beginner and live near Walton on naze, so looking for local beach permissions. I've read about Walton and Clacton, but is Holland on sea OK too? Thanks

[Duncanmagoo]

Thanks for the tips guys. I am a beginner and live near Walton on naze, so looking for local beach permissions. I've read about Walton and Clacton, but is Holland on sea OK too? Thanks

It doesn’t appear to be crown estate https://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/our-bu ... one-flying So would fall to the landowner. I think this is the district council.

From what I can see from a cursory web search is that the councils seafronts service doesn’t require permits.

There does appear to be SSI on one of the cliffs but guess you probably weren’t interested in that anyways lol. https://www.essexfieldclub.org.uk/porta ... Cliff+SSSI

Please don’t just take my word for it. The council should have a page some gumf on it.

Spent my youth down that way. Both my mother and father served and demobbed in Colchester. We then went on to live in Clacton then Thorpe-le-soken. Went to school at Gunfleet/Tendering high…think that was Frinton or possibly Walton-on-the-naze. Spent many a sunny day skiving down the beach and swimming out to the diving platforms/floats so the truancy officer couldn’t get to us. Loved the backwaters.

Moved away for uni and work…work being all over the world.

Don’t quite know why I never moved back.

[Oriansbelt]

Thanks for that. I live in Kirby Cross

[Duncanmagoo]

Thanks for that. I live in Kirby Cross

I remember it well. Some boys and girls from there went to the youth club at Landermere.