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Hamlet in Essex, England · United Kingdom

Lee-over-Sands

Lee-over-Sands is a small coastal hamlet in the civil parish of St Osyth, in the Tendring district of Essex, England.

Lee-over-Sands
Lee-over-Sands · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Lee-over-Sands is a small coastal hamlet in the civil parish of St Osyth, in the Tendring district of Essex, England. It is located close to the mouth of the River Colne into the North Sea.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lee-over-Sands

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Jaywick Martello Tower

    Jaywick Martello Tower is a renovated Martello tower at Jaywick, 2.7 miles south-west of Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. It now functions as an arts, heritage and community venue.

    3 km · fort in Jaywick, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Martello Tower A

    Point Clear Martello Tower is a renovated Martello tower at Point Clear in Tendring, Essex, United Kingdom. It now functions as an aviation museum for aircraft from the Second World War.

    3.9 km · Martello Tower in St. Osyth, Tendring, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Lee-over-Sands

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 58 km · London Luton (LTN), 98 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 110 km
  • London, Essex → Lee-over-Sands
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £11–15
  • London → Lee-over-Sands
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £11–15
  • Luton, Luton → Lee-over-Sands
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lee-over-Sands

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Lee-over-Sands. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    204 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    314 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    402 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    587 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    621 km

If you know how people move in Lee-over-Sands – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Lee-over-Sands

  • St Osythvillage and civil parish in northeast Essex, England, UK3.6 km
  • Point Clearvillage in Essex, United Kingdom2.5 km