Line of abandoned railway north-east of Tendring (EHER 80708)

The remains of two sections of an abandoned railway are visible on first, second and third edition Ordnance Survey maps to the north-east of Tendring. Work on this line started in 1863 and it was intended to branch off the Great Eastern Railway's Manningtree to Harwich line at Mistley, to serve Thorpe-le-Soken and Walton-on-Naze. However, competition from the Tendring Hundred Railway at Colchester, which completed its extension through to Walton-on-Naze in 1867, meant that this stretch of railway was not constructed and was eventually abandoned.

Two sections of abandoned railway are marked on the Ordnance Survey first <1>, second <2> and third <3> edition maps to the north-east and east of Tendring. The Act for the building of the Mistley, Thorpe and Walton Railway was passed in 1863. It was to branch off the GER's Manningtree to Harwich line at Mistley, to serve Thorpe-le-Soken and Walton-on-Naze. The first sod was cut with great ceremony. Construction work started. Faced with competition from the Tendring Hundred Railway at Colchester, which completed its extension through to Walton-on-Naze in 1867, and delayed by things such as a pitch battle between the contractor and their labourers, the line was never completed. <4> The southern section of the line running between TM 1512 2438 and TM 1525 2416 was visible as a cropmark and was mapped during the NMP update in 2022 as part of EHER 3151.