The pretty little seaside town with UK’s best high street – ‘happiest place in Britain’

EXCLUSIVE: The town boasts a fascinating maritime history and a bustling high street with barely an abandoned shop in sight.Leigh-on-Sea, dubbed Southend’s “smaller and trendier sister”, has become one of the most desirable and happiest places to live in the UK. The coastal town sits on the northern bank of the Thames Estuary, naturally divided between its historic fishing port and upmarket high street.