The Seabrook town crest: a shield edged with rope, showing a gold lighthouse, a sailing boat and an anchor, the date 1324, and the motto on a ribbon beneath.

nearby town

Hartbury

Two miles inland. The nearest proper station, a Tesco and a bus interchange.

Hartbury is the nearest town to Seabrook with a railway station. It lies two miles inland. It is a small town with a Tesco and a bus interchange.

Seabrook has no station of its own, and visitors arriving by rail should alight at Hartbury. The line follows the coast for the last twenty minutes. Trains are infrequent. Taxis wait outside the station, and the drive takes five minutes by a road that rises through farmland and then drops towards the sea. There is also a bus, from the interchange to the High Street. The afternoon bus is the 4.15.

The railway came to Hartbury in the Victorian years, and it was the railway that first brought visitors to this coast. Hartbury once had a newspaper of its own, the Hartbury Advertiser, which is now incorporated in the Seabrook Chronicle.

The nearest hospital is at Hartbury, as are the coroner’s court and the larger police station.

Details

Address
Two miles inland, by the Hartbury road

On the map

Not marked on the town map.

The map of Seabrook

Appears in

  1. Book 1 Murder at Seabrook Pier
  2. Book 3 The Seabrook Regatta Sabotage

What the locals say

“Know it well. Five minutes.”

Elsewhere in Seabrook

  • secondary school

    Seabrook Secondary

    Grey uniform, a reference library and a school paper edited with some rigour.

  • gardens

    Seabrook Gardens

    The town park. A bandstand, a duck pond and the war memorial.

  • allotment gardens

    The Allotments

    Sheds, water butts and bean poles, on the south-west side above the harbour.

The whole Seabrook directory

Holmes wisdom: A ledger left open on a counter is a flat surface at a convenient height, which is the whole of its appeal to Holmes.