# The Naze > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Naze > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Naze.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naze > Source revision: 1326420824 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Headland on the east coast of England For the Japanese city with a similar name, see [Naze, Kagoshima](/source/Naze%2C_Kagoshima). For the Norwegian cape with a similar name in English, see [Lindesnes](/source/Lindesnes). For the peninsula in Antarctica with dinosaur fossils, see [The Naze (James Ross Island)](/source/The_Naze_(James_Ross_Island)). This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "The Naze" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Aerial view of the Naze from the north, with Walton-on-the-Naze in the top right Landscape of the Naze **The Naze** is a [headland](/source/Headland) on the east coast of [England](/source/England). It is on the coast of [Essex](/source/Essex) just north of [Blackwater](/source/River_Blackwater%2C_Essex) and projects into the [North Sea](/source/North_Sea). This area is south of the double [estuary](/source/Estuary) of the [River Stour](/source/River_Stour%2C_Suffolk) and [River Orwell](/source/River_Orwell) at [Harwich](/source/Harwich) and just north of the town of [Walton-on-the-Naze](/source/Walton-on-the-Naze). It is also the location of the [Naze Tower](/source/Naze_Tower), an 18th-century monument. The Naze is a peninsula north of the town. It is important for [migrating birds](/source/Bird_migration) and it has a small [nature reserve](/source/Nature_reserve). The marshes of [Hamford Water](/source/Hamford_Water) behind the town are also of ornithological interest, with wintering [ducks](/source/Duck) and [brent geese](/source/Brent_goose). Many [bird watchers](/source/Birdwatching) visit at migration times. ## History Naze Tower The Naze takes its name from Viking raiders or settlers. The place-name "Naze" derives from [Old English](/source/Old_English_language) *næss* "[ness](/source/Promontory), [promontory](/source/Promontory), headland". In 1722 [Daniel Defoe](/source/Daniel_Defoe) mentions the nearby town of Walton calling it "Walton, under the Nase".[1] The tall brick [Naze Tower](/source/Naze_Tower) on the highest point was a lighthouse and was built up to its present height in 1796. In the Napoleonic and 1st World Wars it was a naval signal station. In the 2nd World War a Chain Home Low radar station was built on the Naze to track German warships and low-flying aircraft, and extended in 1942 to include the old tower. (Refs; WO series and AVIA 7 and AIR 26 series files at the National Archives, Kew). ## Threats The Naze is eroding rapidly and threatening the tower and the wildlife. The Naze Protection Society was formed to campaign for erosion controls. The Naze has become popular for school fieldwork into erosion and methods to protect the coast. Protection includes a [sea wall](/source/Sea_wall), a [riprap](/source/Riprap), [groynes](/source/Groyne) and a permeable groyne as well as drainage. The cliff at the Naze is mostly unprotected and eroding at a rate of approximately 2m per year. For many years there has been a campaign to try to protect the Naze tower from toppling into the sea. In 2010 a rock armour revetments was built in front of the tower and this now prevents the cliff in front of the tower from being eroded.However the cliff to the north of the tower continues to erode and the integrity of the rock revetment relies on periodic remedial work to reconnect the revetments to the eroding cliff face. If this is not done the revetments will be outflanked and erosion will break through and rapidly erode the cliff in front of the tower. [51°52′08″N 1°16′46″E / 51.868966°N 1.279564°E / 51.868966; 1.279564](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=The_Naze¶ms=51.868966_N_1.279564_E_region:GB) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Daniel Defoe, *A tour through England and Wales*, J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, London (1959) [Available online here](http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/text/chap_page.jsp?t_id=Defoe&c_id=3&p_id=44) ## External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Naze Tower](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Naze_Tower). - [The official Walton-on-the-Naze website](http://www.walton-on-the-naze.com) - [Naze Protection Society](https://web.archive.org/web/20091124100032/http://www.nazeprotectionsociety.org.uk/) - [The Naze Tower](http://www.nazetower.co.uk) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [The Naze](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naze) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naze?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.