Traditional county: Essex · District / Borough: Tendring · Region: Eastern
Explore Lee-over-Sands, Essex with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Lee-over-Sands map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Lee-over-Sands, Essex, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
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| Place | Lee-over-Sands |
| Traditional County | Essex |
| District / Borough | Tendring |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.772291 |
| Longitude | 1.053616 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Lee-over-Sands emerges from the flat, salt-crusted horizons of the Essex coastline as a place where the earth seems to dissolve into the grey-blue uncertainty of the North Sea. It lies 3.0 miles south-south-east of Brightlingsea (from Brightlingsea: bearing 155°T, OS grid TM 107 125), and is situated west-south-west of Seawick village. The landscape here is defined by a rigorous, horizontal austerity, where the sky claims more space than the land itself. A short distance away, the tidal pulse of St Osyth Ditch draws the landscape into a slow, rhythmic respiration, carrying the scent of brine and exposed mudflats across the low-lying fields. Lee-over-Sands exists in the quiet shadow of these shifting margins, where the light often feels thin and brittle, reflecting off the water with a pale, silver intensity. Beyond the immediate reaches of the shore, the vast expanse of St Osyth Marsh offers a sanctuary of tall grasses that shiver under the persistent, restless wind. Residents here live with the constant, subtle erosion of the tide, observing a world that refuses to hold its shape for long. This is a geography of transience, where the border between the solid ground and the encroaching sea remains perpetually blurred.
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Explore Lee-over-Sands, Essex, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.772291, 1.053616. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | September 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |