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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.

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## Every way there

- 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)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around St Osyth, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What St Osyth has

- Y Scheduled flights London, Essex (STN), 59 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- Y Ferries Brightlingsea/ Point Clear/ East Mersea Foot Ferry, 4 km, Brightlingsea Harbour; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Clacton-on-Sea, 5 km.

51.799°, 1.080°

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.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Osyth), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Terryjoyce (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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