Food & Sightseeing Idea's

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For fresh fish look no further!
24 locals recommend
West Mersea Oyster Bar
Coast Road
24 locals recommend
For fresh fish look no further!
Mersea Barns is a new addition to Mersea. Opened in March 2019, on the site of the old Pick-your-Own, Mersea Barns is a café restaurant and shop offering high quality, freshly prepared breakfasts, lunches, teas, coffees and cakes. You can also got take aways and snacks. There is a decking area with outside tables and a spacious garden with a kids play area and sand pit. The shop stocks household and garden essentials, tasty treats and local arts and crafts. Open 8am – 6pm every day.
7 locals recommend
Mersea Barns
East Road
7 locals recommend
Mersea Barns is a new addition to Mersea. Opened in March 2019, on the site of the old Pick-your-Own, Mersea Barns is a café restaurant and shop offering high quality, freshly prepared breakfasts, lunches, teas, coffees and cakes. You can also got take aways and snacks. There is a decking area with outside tables and a spacious garden with a kids play area and sand pit. The shop stocks household and garden essentials, tasty treats and local arts and crafts. Open 8am – 6pm every day.
Riverside Bar and Restaurant on the Island of Mersea, The Coast Inn welcomes you with it’s friendly atmosphere and stylish blend of traditional wooden floors, modern leather sofas and a cosy real log fire. Whilst exploring the ‘olde’ part of Mersea Island, you will discover The Coast Inn sitting beside the Blackwater. Morning coffee and homemade cakes, lunches, afternoon cream teas or evening dinner, we promise you the freshest food and a warmest of welcomes every time!
19 locals recommend
The Coast Inn
108 Coast Rd
19 locals recommend
Riverside Bar and Restaurant on the Island of Mersea, The Coast Inn welcomes you with it’s friendly atmosphere and stylish blend of traditional wooden floors, modern leather sofas and a cosy real log fire. Whilst exploring the ‘olde’ part of Mersea Island, you will discover The Coast Inn sitting beside the Blackwater. Morning coffee and homemade cakes, lunches, afternoon cream teas or evening dinner, we promise you the freshest food and a warmest of welcomes every time!
If you enjoy really great food served in a relaxed atmosphere with fabulous coffee amongst some of the best original art on offer locally then we think the Artcafé is just the place for you. The cafe enjoy's a terraced seating area for those lazy summer lunches, or on a winter’s day walk for a warm up with hot drinks and homemade cakes.
12 locals recommend
The Art Cafe
7 Trinity St
12 locals recommend
If you enjoy really great food served in a relaxed atmosphere with fabulous coffee amongst some of the best original art on offer locally then we think the Artcafé is just the place for you. The cafe enjoy's a terraced seating area for those lazy summer lunches, or on a winter’s day walk for a warm up with hot drinks and homemade cakes.
The Gilt Rooms in Barfield Road is Mersea’s newsest tea room serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, Sunday roasts and afternoon teas. When you visit The Guilt Rooms you will be spoilt for choice on cakes and delicious main meals and light bites too. All home made with fantastic hosts to make a visit here even more enjoyable.
The Gilt Rooms
4 Barfield Rd
The Gilt Rooms in Barfield Road is Mersea’s newsest tea room serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, Sunday roasts and afternoon teas. When you visit The Guilt Rooms you will be spoilt for choice on cakes and delicious main meals and light bites too. All home made with fantastic hosts to make a visit here even more enjoyable.
Mersea Island lies between the estuaries of the Blackwater and Colne rivers, about nine miles south of Colchester. The present Mersea Island Vineyard was established in 1985. Today there are about ten acres, five grape varieties, producing some twenty thousand bottles each year. Legend has it that the Romans grew grapes on the Island and with its gently sloping, south facing fields, the vineyard is still the perfect place for vines. Mersea Island vineyard offers a range of white wines from very dry to when conditions on the Vineyard have allowed it sweet desert wine. There is even a superb sparkling wine, produced using the authentic ‘Methode Champagnoise’ secondary fermentation process.
11 locals recommend
Mersea Island Vineyard
11 locals recommend
Mersea Island lies between the estuaries of the Blackwater and Colne rivers, about nine miles south of Colchester. The present Mersea Island Vineyard was established in 1985. Today there are about ten acres, five grape varieties, producing some twenty thousand bottles each year. Legend has it that the Romans grew grapes on the Island and with its gently sloping, south facing fields, the vineyard is still the perfect place for vines. Mersea Island vineyard offers a range of white wines from very dry to when conditions on the Vineyard have allowed it sweet desert wine. There is even a superb sparkling wine, produced using the authentic ‘Methode Champagnoise’ secondary fermentation process.

Sightseeing

Founded in 2013 with six paddle boards and two instructors within only a few weeks we expanded our fleet of paddle boards to cope with the growing demand and it hasn’t stopped since! In addition to paddle boarding, they now offer kayaking, windsurfing and sailing. They also provide rentals, birthday parties, corporate events, hen and stag do’s, social events, kids after school clubs, kids summer holiday clubs, gift vouchers and merchandise. From their newly converted centre, you can explore Mersea's unique coastline, along with the many creeks and islands.
11 locals recommend
Mersea Island Watersports
110 Coast Rd
11 locals recommend
Founded in 2013 with six paddle boards and two instructors within only a few weeks we expanded our fleet of paddle boards to cope with the growing demand and it hasn’t stopped since! In addition to paddle boarding, they now offer kayaking, windsurfing and sailing. They also provide rentals, birthday parties, corporate events, hen and stag do’s, social events, kids after school clubs, kids summer holiday clubs, gift vouchers and merchandise. From their newly converted centre, you can explore Mersea's unique coastline, along with the many creeks and islands.
Did you know you can catch the foot ferry from Mersea Stone in Cudmore Grove Country Park to Brightlingsea Harbour across the River Colne? The custom built ferry boat has a ramp which can be lowered to allow for wheelchair users and cycle access as well as foot passengers using the service. By taking the ferry across to Brightlingsea which takes minutes you cut out a car journey of 18.9 miles that takes 40 minutes by road!
Brightlingsea Foot Ferry
4 Copperas Road
Did you know you can catch the foot ferry from Mersea Stone in Cudmore Grove Country Park to Brightlingsea Harbour across the River Colne? The custom built ferry boat has a ramp which can be lowered to allow for wheelchair users and cycle access as well as foot passengers using the service. By taking the ferry across to Brightlingsea which takes minutes you cut out a car journey of 18.9 miles that takes 40 minutes by road!
The Little Beach Hut Company makes a trip to the beach a day to be remembered by providing you with your own pretty little hideaway by the sea, equipped with all you need to eat, drink and play at the beach so you can have a hassle free, fun day without lugging half your home with you. Our huts are suitable in all weathers as they have interior glass doors and some have back opening windows flooding light throughout. All have kitchen areas with sinks and gas cookers. All the huts are about 5 minutes walk from the car park, toilets, playground and cafe. The huts, which are available by the day or for longer periods, are ideal for families, groups of friends, couples or as a sanctuary just for one. To book please visit our website. www.thelittlebeachhutcompany.co.uk
The Little Beach House Mersea (Beach Hut)
Seaview Avenue
The Little Beach Hut Company makes a trip to the beach a day to be remembered by providing you with your own pretty little hideaway by the sea, equipped with all you need to eat, drink and play at the beach so you can have a hassle free, fun day without lugging half your home with you. Our huts are suitable in all weathers as they have interior glass doors and some have back opening windows flooding light throughout. All have kitchen areas with sinks and gas cookers. All the huts are about 5 minutes walk from the car park, toilets, playground and cafe. The huts, which are available by the day or for longer periods, are ideal for families, groups of friends, couples or as a sanctuary just for one. To book please visit our website. www.thelittlebeachhutcompany.co.uk
At the eastern end of Mersea Island, at Cudmore Grove you’ll find a sandy beach, impressive views, grassland, meadows for relaxation and walks that will take you past interesting historical sites and an abundance of wildlife. The park is popular on hot summer days, with its sandy beach and cooling sea breeze. Winter brings wading birds and wildfowl, including flocks of brent geese. The area is rich in historic features, including WWII pillboxes and gun emplacements, the remains of a 16th century blockhouse fort and a cliff that has produced 300,000-year-old fossils, such as monkey, bear and bison. Cudmore Grove is a flat site with easy walking ground mostly accessible for wheelchair users. Several miles of walking paths circle and cross the site, including the Sea Wall walk, crossing the grasslands and along the sides of the grazing marshes. A wildlife hide overlooks the pond where you can often see wildfowl, foxes and rabbits. The low-lying grazing meadow is managed as an Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) nature reserve attracting wading birds and ducks throughout the year. Winter is the best season for birdwatching with sea-duck and grebes in the Colne estuary, up to 15 types of wader on the rich mudflats and maybe a glimpse of a hunting bird of prey like a peregrine or marsh harrier. On the grazing fields in winter, lots of wigeon and teal can be seen as well as large flocks of brent geese, while in the summer lapwings and avocet often breed
33 locals recommend
Cudmore Grove Country Park
Broman's Lane
33 locals recommend
At the eastern end of Mersea Island, at Cudmore Grove you’ll find a sandy beach, impressive views, grassland, meadows for relaxation and walks that will take you past interesting historical sites and an abundance of wildlife. The park is popular on hot summer days, with its sandy beach and cooling sea breeze. Winter brings wading birds and wildfowl, including flocks of brent geese. The area is rich in historic features, including WWII pillboxes and gun emplacements, the remains of a 16th century blockhouse fort and a cliff that has produced 300,000-year-old fossils, such as monkey, bear and bison. Cudmore Grove is a flat site with easy walking ground mostly accessible for wheelchair users. Several miles of walking paths circle and cross the site, including the Sea Wall walk, crossing the grasslands and along the sides of the grazing marshes. A wildlife hide overlooks the pond where you can often see wildfowl, foxes and rabbits. The low-lying grazing meadow is managed as an Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) nature reserve attracting wading birds and ducks throughout the year. Winter is the best season for birdwatching with sea-duck and grebes in the Colne estuary, up to 15 types of wader on the rich mudflats and maybe a glimpse of a hunting bird of prey like a peregrine or marsh harrier. On the grazing fields in winter, lots of wigeon and teal can be seen as well as large flocks of brent geese, while in the summer lapwings and avocet often breed
We are an independent museum established in 1976 and occupying purpose-built premises in the centre of West Mersea, just to the east of the Parish Church. The traditional local activities of fishing, oystering, wild fowling and boat building are represented. The reconstruction within the museum of a typical weather-boarded fisherman’s cottage provides an interior display centred on a Victorian coal-fired kitchen range, with adjoining facilities for washing clothes using old-fashioned manual equipment. Computers in the Resource Centre can be used to access over 30,000 images, slideshows, articles, parish records, local census contents, audio files, video. Children are welcome, with puzzles and quizzes available.
11 locals recommend
Mersea Island Museum
12 High St
11 locals recommend
We are an independent museum established in 1976 and occupying purpose-built premises in the centre of West Mersea, just to the east of the Parish Church. The traditional local activities of fishing, oystering, wild fowling and boat building are represented. The reconstruction within the museum of a typical weather-boarded fisherman’s cottage provides an interior display centred on a Victorian coal-fired kitchen range, with adjoining facilities for washing clothes using old-fashioned manual equipment. Computers in the Resource Centre can be used to access over 30,000 images, slideshows, articles, parish records, local census contents, audio files, video. Children are welcome, with puzzles and quizzes available.