History of Walton-on-the-Naze

Walton-on-the-Naze, the Promenade 1891
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection.

White's Directory of Essex 1848

WALTON-LE-SOKEN, or WALTON ON THE NAZE, is a small, but handsome and improving town, romantically situated of the cliffs next to >>more.

White's Directory of Essex 1848 - list of inhabitants.

More local history sources

Books featuring Walton on the Naze from Abebooks. Just click the logo. The search terms are already formatted for Walton on the Naze.

Search for Walton-on-the-Naze census returns at ancestry.co.uk.

1841 England Census | 1851 England Census | 1861 England Census
1871 England Census | 1881 England Census | 1891 England Census
1901 England Census

High Street, Walton-on-the-Naze
Reproduced courtesy of Footsteps.
Quality reproductions of old photographs.

The Essex Record Office: an excellent starting point for research. The ERO has an online catalogue by the name of SEAX and a database of Parish Records held in the ERO. Access to both via their home page.

Community web site with the history of Walton-on-the-Naze.

BBC web site with suggestions for a walk around Walton-on-the-Naze taking in the Naze Tower.

1881 Ordnance Survey Map from the British History Online web site (Essex: 039, Ordnance Survey 1:10,560: Epoch 1.0).

Ordnance Survey - type the place name in the gazetteer search box to view detailed map of Walton-on-the-Naze.

Images of England web site which has a photographic record of England's listed buildings - from the grandest house to the humblest cottage. Enter the town or village in the search box. Photographs are accompanied by a detailed architectural description of the property.

Walton-on-the-Naze
print published 1834