Folly Farm
Folly Farm is a farm in St Osyth, Tendring District, England. Folly Farm is situated nearby to the community center St Osyth Village Hall, as well as near St Osyth Church of England Primary School.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St Osyth’s Priory and Howlands Marsh.
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 2,700 feet west of Folly Farm.
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.
Riddles Wood
Forest
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Riddles Wood is a 37.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Brightlingsea and Clacton-on-Sea in Essex. The site has varied ancient pedunculate oak and hazel in some areas and oak and hornbeam in others, as well as chestnut coppice.
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. Point Clear is situated 1½ miles west of Folly Farm.
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 2 miles southeast of Folly Farm.
Lee-over-Sands
Hamlet
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. Lee-over-Sands is situated 2½ miles southwest of Folly Farm.
Folly Farm
- Type: Farm
- Category: agriculture
- Location: St Osyth, Tendring District, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.8002° or 51° 48′ 1″ northLongitude
1.08681° or 1° 5′ 13″ eastOpen location code
9F33R32P+3POpenStreetMap ID
way 179976914OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=farmyard
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