There are many elderly bungalows and chalets, which can only be used as holiday homes, due to the risk of flooding during the winter months.

The southern one, level with the roundabout and bus stop, was used as a naturalist's holiday home, and later an amateur radio station and test site for Marconi's.

The northern tower was used by the Navy in both world wars, and the minefield control and signals bunker added in 1940 can still be seen on top.

In the Second World War the whole area was strongly fortified, and was a Royal Navy and Marines landing craft training base.

Until 1940, a line of beach huts ran right down to the tip of the Peninsula at St Osyth Stone – nowadays that area is open.