St Andrew, Weeley Church

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Address: Church Ln, Weeley, Clacton-on-Sea CO16 9AT, UK

Phone: 01255 852232

State: Essex

City: Clacton-on-Sea

Zip Code: CO16 9AT

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St. Andrew's church is located down a country lane, amidst arable fields, halfway between Weeley & Weeley Heath. It lies in a shady spot beside a duckpond, although all the water evaporated during the drought Summer of 2022. St. Andrew's is something of a marker for a unique event in the history of the village, that has become the stuff of legend in rock festival folklore. Almost unbelievably, after the harvest in 1971, the stubble fields here were used to stage a festival of progressive rock, over the August bank holiday weekend. Now popularly recalled as the Weeley Pop Festival, hippies & assorted music lovers arrived from all over the country, in order to listen to such chart topping acts as Mungo Jerry; Status Quo; Rod Stewart & The Faces; Marc Bolan & T-Rex; Barclay James Harvest; Al Stewart; Rory Gallagher; & all sorts of lesser known acts. Naively, the organisers believed that such a setlist would only draw a crowd of 10,000 - in the event, at least 10-times that many arrived on-site, some who were there claim it was closer to 20-times the available printed tickets. Not surprisingly, the impromptu Pop Festival was a struggle to control, with official security actually fighting for supremacy with a gang of Hell's Angels, who actually came off worst & were shown insult to injury by being arrested by police. The event is fondly remembered as 'the English Woodstock', & that's no exaggeration, considering the quality & quantity of performers taking the main stage opposite Weeley church. Unfortunately, very little was recorded of the 3 day festival & nothing today remains but the church as an indicator that this spot once hosted such a massive gathering...

Lovely setting. Quiet area, wish it were open for the public to have a look as it brings back memories from primary

Very beautiful old church and such a peaceful place

Nice quiet church in nice surrounding

Lovely place to visit

A good peaceful area

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