St Osyth
St Osyth is an English village and civil parish in the Tendring District of north-east Essex, about five miles west of Clacton-on-Sea and 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Colchester.
St Osyth is an English village and civil parish in the Tendring District of north-east Essex, about five miles west of Clacton-on-Sea and 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Colchester. It lies on the B1027, Colchester–Clacton road. The village is named after Osgyth, a seventh-century saint and princess. Locally, the name is sometimes pronounced "Toosey". It is claimed to be the driest recorded place in the United Kingdom. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 5,157.
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Worth seeing in and around St Osyth
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.
- 01St Osyth Pit
St Osyth Pit is a 0.1-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of St Osyth in Essex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
1.4 km · 0.1-hectare geological site in Essex · Wikipedia - 02Jaywick 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.
3.1 km · fort in Jaywick, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to St Osyth
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 59 km · London Luton (LTN), 100 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 112 km
- Stations
- Clacton Airport, 3.8 km
- London, Essex → St Osyth90 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £11–14
- London → St Osyth90 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £11–14
- Luton, Luton → St Osyth104 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £14–19
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No local-transport research exists yet for St Osyth
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 St Osyth. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to St Osyth
- Brightlingseacoastal town in the Tendring district of Essex, England, UK3.6 km
- Jaywickvillage in Essex, England, UK3.4 km
- Point Clearvillage in Essex, United Kingdom2.8 km
- St Osyth Heathhamlet in Tendring District, Essex, England, UK3.1 km
- Lee-over-Sandshamlet in Essex, England3.6 km
- Bocking's Elmsuburb of Clacton-on-Sea, in Essex, England, UK3.3 km