There are no public roads to the cache.
The roads and farms are private. StreetMap can be of help to plan your route. Public footpaths are marked in RED. Private roads have no colour - WHITE. The single lanes do not offer a great deal for parking. Although Montsale looks like the closest starting point, it is not to say it is the shortest walk.
Do not venture out on your own. And if so, let somebody know. Everyone's telling us that we must exercise more. Get out and get fit, is the order of the day.
So I went for a short stroll along what must be the most remote and inaccessible part of the coastline, not just in Essex, but perhaps the whole country. Bradwell-on-Sea to Burnham-on-Crouch (both with hyphens). The walk from St Peters Chapel to the Corinthian yacht club in Burnham is about 12 miles.
Armed with waterproofs, a warm hat, flask of tea and sandwiches, the walk took around six hours from the mouth of the River Blackwater to the mouth of the Crouch and inland to Burnham.
There is plenty of 'nothingness' to look at, but also some really unusual sights: The amazing saltings and mud flats that stretch, in places, for miles - at other points the saltings are frighteningly small and offer very little protection from the North Sea.
Lunch was taken at Holliwell point, where the sea wall was strengthened in the 70's and again in the 80's. Midway along this section is a gate, I guess to stop anyone driving along the wall, but it's become a 'depository' for all kinds of flotsam. (The infamous gate of toot)
It's a great walk and if you fancy a little solitude it might be the route for you... and if, or when, my feet stop aching I'd like to go round a high tide with a strong NE wind blowing.
Ref: Ray's Breakfast blog - Ray Clark - BBC Essex