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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
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The place

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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What is there

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.

  1. 01
    St 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
  2. 02
    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.

    3.1 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 Osyth
    90 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £11–14
  • London → St Osyth
    90 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £11–14
  • Luton, Luton → St Osyth
    104 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    207 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    311 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    404 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    586 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    620 km

If you know how people move in St Osyth – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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