Mersea Island Essex

Child playing on the beach by the beach huts on a small island with sandy beaches on the river Blackwater on 2nd May 2021 in Mersea Island, Essex, United Kingdom. It is the most eastern inhabited island in the UK, it has a total area of seven square miles, and a permanent population of around 7,000, though the island's holiday parks mean this population swells considerably in peak season. It's attached to mainland Essex by one solitary causeway. Evolving from fishermen's huts, boatsheds or Victorian bathing machines, beach huts, Small, wooden buildings, typically measuring 12ft by 10ft, often with rudimentary electricity but no plumbing, a beach hut may be a modest thing to look at, but it holds a country's collective yearning at the seaside. (photo by Barry Lewis/In Pictures via Getty Images)