The pretty seaside town loved by commuters that's one of the UK's safest

Leigh-on-Sea is simply a tiny municipality successful Essex (Image: Donald Judge)

A seaside municipality with a beauteous estuary and a debased transgression complaint has go fashionable with commuters.

Leigh-on-Sea, often referred to simply arsenic Leigh, is simply a municipality adjacent to the metropolis of Southend-on-Sea successful Essex. It has a colonisation of 22,500.

The municipality is connected the bluish broadside of the Thames Estuary, a fewer miles from the North Sea to the east, and a akin region from the Kent seashore to the south. 

From creation galleries and artisan boutiques to a assortment of pubs, superb seafood eateries, and renowned cockle sheds, this charming haven presents an perfect mounting to relax, rejuvenate, and savour the invigorating oversea breeze.

Visit Essex describes Leigh arsenic a municipality afloat of “unique quality and charm”. It says: “It is good worthy a sojourn with plentifulness of attractions and eateries to support you entertained.

Leigh-on-Sea is 1 of the safest towns successful Essex (Image: Donald Judge)

“With galleries and trade shops, a enactment of pubs, fantabulous food restaurants and the celebrated cockle sheds, this picturesque municipality is the cleanable spot for you to unwind and instrumentality successful the caller oversea air.”

Visitors tin expect to spot Old Leigh, Belfairs Wood, Leigh Heritage Centre, Leigh connected Sea Brewery, Leigh Library gardens, and a platform of restaurants and cafes.

The municipality has a transgression complaint 24% little than the Essex mean and 35% little than the nationalist average. This puts it among the apical 10 safest tiny towns successful Essex. 

The Times said that Leigh had a debased transgression complaint of “63 crimes per 1,000 radical connected average” and the website CrimeRate agreed, placing it astatine 64 per 1,000 radical successful 2023. 

Rightmove’s 2023 Happy astatine Home Index survey recovered it was the 11th happiest spot to unrecorded successful the UK. It was besides voted 1 of the coolest places to unrecorded successful the UK  successful a survey conducted by wellness institution Naturecan.

Lewis Harvey, a income negotiator astatine section property cause Gilbert & Rose, said: "People thin to determination to Leigh due to the fact that of the beauteous seaside oregon estuary, arsenic immoderate radical similar to say. 

“You are precise adjacent to the beauteous Broadway that we person successful the bosom of Leigh, which has got shops, java shops, bars, restaurants, thing you could astir apt want."

Properties successful Leigh-On-Sea person an wide mean terms of £454,000 according to Rightmove and £449,000 according to Zoopla.

Leigh is 40 miles from cardinal London via roadworthy and obstruction networks and is portion of the London commuter belt. Train services to London tally regularly passim the time and instrumentality betwixt 50 and 70 minutes.