page_title: Hampton-on-Sea
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Hampton-on-Sea / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: House in Swalecliffe Avenue, Herne Bay, Kent, England. Apart from the Hampton Inn, it is the last remaining building of the drowned settlement Hampton-on-Sea, and was built in the late 1890s. It was originally called Pleasant Cottage, then Hampton Bungalow. It is now called Stillwaters. It featured as "Dilly Dally Cottage" in the children's book Half Term Trail (1955) by Will Scott.
context_page_description: Hampton-on-Sea was a drowned and abandoned village in what is now the Hampton area of Herne Bay, Kent. It grew from a tiny fishing hamlet in 1864 at the hands of an oyster fishery company, was developed from 1879 by land agents, abandoned in 1916 and finally drowned due to coastal erosion by 1921. All that now remains is the stub of the original pier, the Hampton Inn, and the rocky arc of Hampton-on-Sea's ruined coastal defence visible at low tide. The site is notable for sharing its history with the eccentric Edmund Reid. Reid was previously the Metropolitan Police head of CID who handled the Jack the Ripper case. In retirement he chose to champion the plight of the beleaguered residents of the settlement.
context_section_description: Will Scott's 1955 children's novel Half Term  trail is set partly in Hampton-on-Sea under the fictional name of West Bay, and it features Pleasant Cottage (later called Hampton Bungalow; then Stillwaters) in Swalecliffe Avenue under the name of Dilly Dally cottage. Hampton's cliffs before the erection of the 1959 defences are described thus: 
  "The first cliffs in West Bay are hardly cliffs at all.  It's where the stream runs out across the beach, and you can stand on the sands and look over the edge of the cliffs without even standing on your toes.  Farther along the cliffs are higher and crumbly and falling into the sea all the time, which was one reason why nobody wanted to buy Dilly Dally.  A few more years and it would be in the sea along with the cliff."
caption: Stillwaters, fictionalised as Dilly Dally Cottage in Half-Term  trail (1955)
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