Osea Island Beach

  • Osea Island Beach - Essex
    © Oliver Dixon and licensed for reuse under this Licence
  • Osea Island Beach - Essex
    © Oliver Dixon and licensed for reuse under this Licence
  • Osea Island Beach - Essex
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  • Set in the Blackwater River estuary Osea Island is 400 acres of rural idyll surrounded by several miles of beach and coast.

    The island is reachable by a narrow causeway at low tide only.

    Type of beach

    Shingle

    Lifeguard service

    No

    Dogs friendly beach?

    Dogs allowed

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    Nearest town

    Maldon

    OS grid ref.

    TL 9174 0586

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    Osea Island Beach Reviews

    Private island!

    Jun 27th 2021

    This is a private island. You might get away with walking around it, but some people hire out the entire island to themselves and since you won’t know when that happens, it’s only worth heading to the beach if you are a guest of the island - at which point I’m sure it’s lovely!

    Jun 05th 2021

    We landed on the beach by boat had been then about a hour and a wormen who claimed to be the land own pushing for a fight starting shouting to get off her land and very rudely started throwing all our stuff in the water and standing less then 0.5 of a meter away.

    She wanted to call the police for us being on private land.