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Brightlingsea

coastal town in the Tendring district of Essex, England, UK
Place Town Q915751

Facts

13 properties

Identity

Instance of
town, civil parish[4]
Official website
www.brightlingsea-town.co.uk[10]

Location

Country
United Kingdom[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.810°, 1.030°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Tendring[2]

Population and size

Population
8.1k (8.1k–8.7k, n=3)[11][12][13]

Codes

Local dialing code
01206[7]
Postal code
CO7[5]
More facts +5
Authority
Brightlingsea Town Council[9]
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14]
Historic county
Essex[15]
OS grid reference
TM087168[8]
Said to be the same as
Brightlingsea[6]
🏷️ Also known as
en Brightlingsea en Brightlingsea, Essex fa برایتلینگسی ja ブライトリンシー ko 브라이팅씨 ru Брайтлингси zh 布賴特靈西 zh-hans 布赖特灵西
🔖 Identifiers · 26
VIAF cluster ID
134972091
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n88080931
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Brightlingsea Harbour.jpg ↗
BBC Things ID
52d65d16-6259-46db-925e-5b795acaa942
FactGrid item ID
Wikidata item
Freebase ID
/m/021q_6
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2590883
GSS code (2011)
E04004092
GeoNames ID
2654711, 7296677
J9U entity ID
987007564797305171
KEPN ID
Essex/Brightlingsea
MusicBrainz area ID
9cb31ec2-1de8-4bc8-badf-4a7e9095cb20
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OpenDomesday settlement ID
TM0718/brightlingsea
OpenStreetMap relation ID
76851
OpenWeatherMap city ID
2654711
Quora topic ID
Brightlingsea
Survey of English Place-Names ID
532858beb47fc40a98000bd2, 532858eeb47fc40a98000dad
TOID
7000000000019533, 4000000074546227
Topic's main category
Category:Brightlingsea
UN/LOCODE
GBBLS
Vision of Britain place ID
894
Vision of Britain unit ID
10235315
WOEID
13910
Who's on First ID
101854725
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJmy3Y9jVJQWr37JbjTPwC
Yale LUX ID
place/e2d64232-af21-4a4d-8f2b-9d2c71120dc7

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
town, civil parish
Country 1
United Kingdom
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Tendring
Located in time zone 1
UTC+00:00
People born here 1
Reg White
People who died here 1
Reg White
← FactGrid item ID 1
Slatina
← Filming location 1
The Essex Serpent
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Summary

Brightlingsea is a town[1].

🛰️ Living Edge · news-derived, source-cited

high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.

served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

Located in the administrative territorial entity Essex emerging0.753 independent sources

evidence “Vitória Figueiredo Barreto, 31, disappeared from Brightlingsea in Essex on March 4, and her case was featured on an episode of Crimewatch Live.” braintreeandwithamtimes.co.uk · read source

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Tendring
    Official website → http://www.brightlingsea-town.co.uk/
    Coordinate location → 51.810°, 1.030°
    Described by source → Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #48912: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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