Walton Maritime Museum
Walton Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Walton-on-the-Naze. Add Walton Pier, 1.1 km away, to a visit; it leads 21 places within 15 km.
Museum in Walton-on-the-Naze
Inside Walton-on-the-Naze
Walton Maritime Museum is inside Walton-on-the-Naze’s built-up area, with 2 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Picking your season
In Walton-on-the-Naze the warm season is June to September, with highs of 19–23°C.
Walton Maritime Museum
Maritime museum in Walton-on-the-Naze.
In Walton-on-the-Naze, inside the town’s built-up area.
- Type
- Museum
- Town
- in Walton-on-the-Naze
- Official site
- fwheritage.co.uk/waltoninfo.aspx
Finding Walton Maritime Museum
Walton Maritime Museum is in orange, with the places near it numbered as below.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Walton-on-the-Naze’s built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
Nearby towns
The most populous of the 5 is Walton-on-the-Naze, at 6,980. Each town here links to its own guide.
Walton-on-the-Naze
Frinton-on-Sea
Kirby Cross
Kirby-le-Soken
Compare the 5 towns
| Town | Where Walton Maritime Museum is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walton-on-the-Naze | It’s in town | 6,980 | 3 |
| Frinton-on-Sea | 2.1 km southwest of it | 4,865 | 3 |
| Kirby Cross | 2.5 km southwest of it | 6,036 | 3 |
| Kirby-le-Soken | 2.7 km west of it | 1,207 | 3 |
| Great Holland | 4.7 km southwest of it | 500 | 3 |
Also within reach
21 more lie within 15 km, 3 piers, 3 forts and a castle among them.
PierWalton Pier1.1 km away2FortFortHM Fort Roughs14 km away3
Castle · English HeritageLandguard Fort9.7 km away4
PierClacton Pier12 km away5
FortBeacon Hill Fort9.2 km away6
FortHarwich Redoubt9.7 km away7
MuseumLightvessel 1810 km away8PierPierShotley Pier11 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Before visiting Walton Maritime Museum
Where is Walton Maritime Museum?
Walton Maritime Museum is in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is Walton Maritime Museum?
Maritime museum in Walton-on-the-Naze.
When is the best time to visit Walton Maritime Museum?
June to September are the warmest months in Walton-on-the-Naze, with afternoon highs of 19–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near Walton Maritime Museum?
Within 15 km: Walton Pier (1.1 km), HM Fort Roughs (14 km), Landguard Fort (9.7 km) and Clacton Pier (12 km).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (7)
- Walton Maritime Museum: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Walton Pier: Scribwik, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Landguard Fort: Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Clacton Pier: Rwendland, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Beacon Hill Fort: Oxyman, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harwich Redoubt: John Fielding from Norwich, UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lightvessel 18: Matt Harrop, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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