Let’s Help Essex’s Beacon Hill Lose It’s Unwanted Award

The Tower of London stands at one end of the spectrum as the most visited attraction on VisitEngland’s list, with nearly 3 million paying customers last year.

Even Papplewick Hall only has 187 visitors !

However, lying at the other end, in a state of unwanted tranquility is Beacon Hill in Essex, with just six visitors.  It may have been an important part of Britain's defence against Nazi invasion, but as a historical icon the Beacon Hill Fort hasn't exactly captured hearts and minds of history tourists.

The six visitors works out as one every sixty one days, resulting in an inglorious last place in a list of 1,279 destinations in VisitEngland’s survey

Beacon Hill is a long way from the Tower of London, number one on VisitEngland's list for top paid destinations, despite having being restored by the The Harwich Society after being decommissioned in 1956.

There are some other perhaps more surprising contestants for the far from coveted last place, including Old Buckenham Mill, Breckland, Norfolk with 128 visitors,   Long Crendon Courthouse,  Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire with 153 visitors, and Papplewick Hall and Gardens,  Gedling,Nottinghamshire with just 187 visitors.

So come on British tourists, if another six people visit Beacon Hill, its attendance figures will have increased by 100%  ..... and even the Tower of London won’t be able to achieve that!