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. It is located close to the mouth of the River Colne into the North Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: hamlet in Essex, England
- Also known as: “Lee over Sands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jaywick Martello Tower and Howlands Marsh.
Jaywick Martello Tower
Arts center
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. It is a Grade II listed building and a scheduled monument. Jaywick Martello Tower is situated 2 miles east of Lee-over-Sands.
Howlands Marsh
Nature reserve
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Howlands Marsh is a 29.9-hectare nature reserve north-east of St Osyth in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. It is part of the Colne Estuary Site of Special Scientific Interest Special Protection Area and Ramsar site, and the Blackwater Flats and Marshes Nature Conservation Review site. Howlands Marsh is situated 2½ miles north of Lee-over-Sands.
St Osyth’s Priory
Building
Photo: JohnArmagh, Public domain.
St Osyth's Abbey is a historic monastic site and former country house in St Osyth, Essex, England. Originating as an Augustinian abbey and one of the county’s most prominent medieval religious houses, it was dissolved in 1539 and subsequently developed into a major landed estate. St Osyth’s Priory is situated 2 miles northeast of Lee-over-Sands.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Point Clear and Jaywick.
Point Clear
Village
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Point Clear is a village in the civil parish of St Osyth, south-west of the village of St Osyth and on the other side of St Osyth Creek, a branch of the Colne Estuary in the Tendring district, in the county of Essex, England.
Jaywick
Suburb
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Jaywick is a coastal village in the Tendring district of Essex, England, 2 miles west of Clacton-on-Sea. It lies on the North Sea coast of England, 60 miles from London and 17 miles from Colchester. Jaywick is situated 3 miles east of Lee-over-Sands.
Clacton
Photo: Pkuczynski, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Clacton in Essex, also known as Clacton-on-Sea, is the largest town in the Tendring Peninsula. It's between Jaywick and Holland-on-Sea.
Lee-over-Sands
- Category: locality
- Location: St Osyth, Tendring District, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.77174° or 51° 46′ 18″ northLongitude
1.05359° or 1° 3′ 13″ eastElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
9F33Q3C3+MCOpenStreetMap ID
node 317529980OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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