We've been in Leigh (the other end, though, near Chalkwell station) for over twenty years and I've never had It suggested to me that I should worry about straying over the border into the wild world of Castle Point

.
DD's suggestion was that since 'Hadleigh is full of old people' (???

), there might be an undercurrent of fear that something could snap between them and the enormous concentration of adolescents that is the King John School and SEEVIC.
She was joking, btw

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Her first suggestion was that the main danger was probably from dying of boredom (apologies, thankgoditsover)...).