With its vast coastline including remote, untamed beaches, estuaries and clay cliffs; untouched salt marshes and mudflats; vibrant seaside towns, coastal villages and piers; waterfront cities, marinas, modern ports and historic maritime buildings, the East of England has much to offer the filmmaker.
Holkham Beach
Holkham Beach is a massive expanse of unspoilt sandy beach at low tide. Its windswept tidelines, maze of creeks, miles of dunes and sand pits, pinewoods, green pastures and marshes provide a wonderful diverse location for filming.
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Norfolk Broads
The Broads is Britain's largest nationally protected wetland. Its rivers, broads (shallow lakes), marshes and fens make it a unique area, rich in rare habitats, which support myriad plants and animals. Globally, wetlands are among the most threatened of landscapes. The Broads is also one of Europe's most popular inland waterways. Once an essential transport network, today the waterways are used for recreation, attracting more than a million visitors a year.
North Norfolk Coastline
The long coastline of Norfolk falls into two very different categories. From the Wash around to Sheringham and Cromer, the sea is gradually retreating giving rise to sandbanks, spits of land and silted harbours. From Cromer onwards, the sea gradually gains ground, and in many places the soft clay cliffs are becoming deeply erroded. However, around the length of the Norfolk coastline, there are lots of fine sandy beaches, some remote and quiet but those closer to towns, villages and resorts are popular with locals and visitors alike.
The Fens
The Fens are unique with an atmosphere and character all of their own. This fascinating area with its big skies, special history and unique heritage, offers a landscape with a real difference. The Fens stretch from Cambridge to Lincoln and from King’s Lynn to Peterborough – nearly 1 million acres of beautiful black soil and wildlife-rich water. The Fens of today are a people-made landscape, as full of history and heritage as they are of flowers, horticulture, water and wildlife.
Walton-on-the-Naze
Walton is a traditional seaside town with many of its original features still evident to this day. It features impressive cliffs situated alongside a long sandy beach and the coastal resort includes a large number of beach huts and a commercial pier.
Ipswich Marina
When opened in 1842, the Wet Dock was the largest area of enclosed water of its kind in England. Since then Ipswich’s historic Waterfront has undergone an exciting renaissance with new restaurants, bars, marinas and homes emerging.
Southend Pier
Southend Pier is the town's historical icon as well as being the longest pleasure pier in the world, with its glorious 1.33 miles literally putting Southend on the map as well as into the record books. It is a true survivor, having lived through fires, boat crashes, two world wars and economic decline as well as braving the elements of Mother Nature in beating off the effects of the weather and the waves.