Point Clear is an area of the village, placed to west of the village centre.

St Osyth occurs as parish of Tendring District.

The Legend of Saint Osyth

Legend has it that Saint Osyth (or Osiththe) was a young lady world health organization was required within various todays cases when you took her life. Tales include:

a immature Osyth drowned within water, however was revived by nuns from either the local convent praying for her for tercet years. St Osyth was executed by beheading; in which she fell a spring come from either the ground; she picked higher her head & walked to the door of the nunnery in which she knocked threefold on the door prior to collapsing. To this day, Osyth's ghost walks along a priory bulwarks carrying her head 1 nighttime every season.

Local Sights

A virtually all notable building in the village is beyond any doubt its mediaeval Priory. A village church is dedicated to St Peter & St Paul.

History

Before existence renamed to commemorate Saint Osyth, a village was known as Chich (surrogate spellings include Chiche & Chick).

St Osyth was a subject of an episode of Channel 4's Time Team programme, originally broadcast on 27 February 2005. This programme sought to uncover a early origins of a village, which wwhen presumed to stand grown higher at in a equivalent period as the Priory, in the 12th century. Several of a investigations about a todays village centre observed little grounds to believe of award before a fourteenth century; it appeared that a early village centre lay a bit of way slay, between a Priory & the flow of any stream.

Facts

St Osyth is known to the locals when "Toosey", which is apparently formed from either the contraction of the village title. Within terms of annual typical rain, St Osyth is the driest recorded place in the UK, by having simply 513 millimetre by the season. (source - http://www.metoffice.com/education/curriculum/didyouknow.html). By a bit of definitions, this is moo plenty to classify St Osyth as a desert!