Bradwell Waterside
| Bradwell Waterside | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
 Bradwell Marina | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TL996078 |
| Location: | 51°44’2"N, 0°53’24"E |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Southminster |
| Postcode: | CM0 |
| Dialling code: | 01621 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Maldon |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Maldon and East Chelmsford |
Bradwell Waterside is a small hamlet with a marina on the coast of Essex, standing at the north end of the Dengie Peninsula, on the south shore of the Blackwater Estuary as it opens into the North Sea. The Bradwell Creek, a channel next to the Blackwater, is its waterfront, across which lies Pewet Island, separating Bradwell Waterside from the open water of the estuary.
The hamlet has and is about a mile north of Bradwell-on-Sea, about five and a half miles north of Southminster and is 17 miles east from the county town of Chelmsford. It can be found at the end of the B1021, the main road through the north of the Dengie peninsula to Latchingdon.
Nearby is the former Royal Air Force base, RAF Bradwell Bay, placed here to take advantage of the flat land of the Dengie. Today the base is farmland. Additionally, there is a former nuclear power plant, Bradwell Power Station, a significant local and navigational landmark. The buildings themselves still stand post-decommissioning, and so does the water intake in the Blackwater. A beach runs along the north-east edge of the Dengie here, from Bradwell Waterside to the Dengie Marshes at Saint Peter's chapel.
There are two pubs in Bradwell; The Green Man in the hamlet and the Marina Bar at Bradwell Marina.