Clacton County High School Clacton County High School Clacton County High School (often abbreviated to CCHS) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Clacton-on-Sea, in the county of Essex, England. There are over 1,900 students attending the school. It specialises in the performing arts, and is situated next to Clacton Leisure Centre, east of the railway station. The school sixth form is working in partnership with other local schools to provide post 16 years education in the Clacton area. It was a grammar school. It was opened in September 1928, and the official opening was on 28 November
Clacton-on-Sea railway station , or Clacton-on-Sea. Clacton is on a spur from Thorpe-le-Soken which was built by the Clacton-on-Sea Railway and originally operated by the Great Eastern Railway. It opened some 15 years after the branch to Walton was opened. On 1 January 1923 the station passed to the London and North Eastern Railway following the 1921 Railways Act. After World War II and following nationalisation, it fell under the auspices of British Railways Eastern Region. Services were steam-operated until the line was electrified, with Clacton first seeing electric trains on 16 March 1959. Initially, the line was only electrified as far as