--- title: "St Osyth – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "St Osyth, United Kingdom: St Osyth is an English village and civil parish in the Tendring District of north-east Essex, about five miles west of…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/st-osyth" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/st-osyth.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Deer_park_stosyth.JPG/1920px-Deer_park_stosyth.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- English seaside resort · United Kingdom # 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Deer_park_stosyth.JPG/1920px-Deer_park_stosyth.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) St Osyth · Terryjoyce 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Osyth), CC BY-SA 4.0. 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Osyth_Pit) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywick_Martello_Tower) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-essex-to-st-osyth) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London%2C+Essex&to=St+Osyth) - London → St Osyth 90 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £11–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-st-osyth) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=St+Osyth) - Luton, Luton → St Osyth 104 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/luton-luton-to-st-osyth) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Luton%2C+Luton&to=St+Osyth) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=St%20Osyth) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. 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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 207 km 2. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 311 km 3. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 404 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 586 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 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](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cst-osyth&title=St+Osyth&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fst-osyth), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to St Osyth - [Brightlingsea](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/brightlingsea) coastal town in the Tendring district of Essex, England, UK 3.6 km - [Jaywick](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jaywick) village in Essex, England, UK 3.4 km - [Point Clear](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/point-clear) village in Essex, United Kingdom 2.8 km - [St Osyth Heath](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/st-osyth-heath) hamlet in Tendring District, Essex, England, UK 3.1 km - [Bocking's Elm](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bockings-elm) suburb of Clacton-on-Sea, in Essex, England, UK 3.3 km - [Lee-over-Sands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lee-over-sands) hamlet in Essex, England 3.6 km [The place page for St Osyth](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/st-osyth) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/st-osyth, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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