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Milton Hall (demolished 1900) was on the site of the what is now Nazareth House on the London Road. when they developed it as a 'high class suburban retreat'. The area between Milton Road and Hamlet Court Road was named The Hamlet by the original developers Brassey, Peto, Betts & Co.

By the time the station opened in 1895 it was named Westcliff not Milton. The southern area of what is now known as Westcliff, south of the London Road, was known as Milton or Milton Hamlet until the period 1860–1880 when the Milton Estate and surrounding land was sold to speculators who preferred the name Westcliff-on-Sea. At low tide, the water typically retreats some 600 m from the beach, leaving the mud flats exposed. The estuary at this point has extensive mud flats. The coastline has been transformed into sandy beaches through the use of groynes and imported sand. The cliffs formed by erosion of the local quaternary geology give views over the Thames Estuary towards the Kent coastline to the south. Geography View south-east over the Thames Estuary to the Isle of Grain, Kent from the shore at Westcliff-On-Sea Traditionally Westcliff included Chalkwell. The Westcliff-on-Sea area is described by Southend-on-Sea City Council as having a border in the east with Milton Road, Hamlet Court Road and Gainsborough Drive Prittlewell Chase to the North and Valkyrie Road/ London Road/ Southbourne Grove in the west. It is on the north shore of the lower Thames Estuary, about 34 miles (55 km) east of London. Westcliff-on-Sea (often abbreviated to Westcliff, and in the past spelt as Westcliffe-on-Sea ) is a suburb of the city of Southend-on-Sea, in the ceremonial county of Essex, England.

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