Mersea Island

What Mersea Island has to offer...

Events & activities

Spring

Weekly Sunday carboot sale at Waldergraves - Easter to October

Food, Drink and Leisure Festival at Mersea Vineyard

Beer Festival at the Vineyard

Summer

Mersea Town Regatta (incorporating Mersea Week and Round the Island Race)

Autumn

Oyster Dredging Match

Winter

Boxing Day Swim

All year round

Crabbing

Wind surfing and Kite surfing

Cycling

Bird watching and walking at Cudmore Grove Country Park

The island location offers excellent sailing and watersports, including wind surfing and also has superb kite surfing beaches.

The waterfront / anchorage offers a variety of restaurants and places to eat. Mersea is famous for its Native Oysters, which have been praised by both Jamie Oliver and Rick Stein, and these can be sampled in 'The Company Shed' and 'The West Mersea Oyster Bar'.

In addition to the above eateries there is also 'The Victory', 'The Fox', 'Titash' and 'The Coast Inn'.

We are happy to make table reservations for you prior to your arrival. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Mersea also has its own vineyard and wine and beer are brewed on site and available in the cafe.

Places of Interest

Colchester Castle Museum
Layer Marney Towers
Beth Chatto's Gardens
Abberton Reservoir
Colchester Zoo
Hedingham Castle
Mercury Theatre Colchester
Clacton & Walton Piers
Jimmy's Farm