Butlin's Clacton was bought by the Rank Group. The Clacton camp was open until 1983 when due to package holidays and changing tastes, the holiday camp was closed and sold to a group of former departmental managers at the camp who reopened it as a short-lived theme park called Atlas Park. Atlas Park only lasted a year and the land was then sold and redeveloped with housing. Butlin's Clacton Butlin's Clacton was a holiday camp located on Clacton-on-Sea in England. It opened in 1938 and closed in 1983. Clacton-on-Sea is the largest town on the Tendring Peninsula in Essex and was founded
Hopton-on-Sea Hopton-on-Sea Hopton-on-Sea is a village, civil parish and seaside resort on the coast of East Anglia in the county of Norfolk. It is located some south of the town of Great Yarmouth and north-west of Lowestoft and near the UK's most easterly point, Lowestoft Ness. The earliest human activity in the parish dates to the Palaeolithic era with the discovery of flint tools. There have also been artefacts found from the Bronze age and Roman era in the area. The oldest building in the parish is the ruins of St Margaret’s church a 14th century church which burnt down in