:Lee-over-Sands

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| official_name= Lee-over-Sands

| civil_parish = St Osyth

| country= England

| region= East of England

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| shire_district= Tendring

| shire_county= Essex

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|static_image=Lee-over-Sands, from sea wall.JPG

|static_image_caption=Houses on Wall Street, except for the closest white house which is on Leewick Lane

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File:Lee-over-Sands, seaward side of Beach Road houses.JPG

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.{{cite book |page=46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hwl1Tefe1q4C |title=Essex Coastline: Then and Now |author=M.P.B. Fautley, J.H. Garon |publisher=Potton Publishing |year=2004 |isbn=9780954801007}}

A sandspit called Colne Point{{cite journal |url=http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/gcrdb/GCRsiteaccount2889.pdf |title=St Osyth Marsh, Colne Point |author=V.J. May |journal=Coastal Geomorphology of Great Britain |volume=28 |issue=10 |year=2003 |accessdate=17 January 2017}} is offshore from the hamlet. Colne Point Nature Reserve, a shingle ridge enclosing a saltmarsh, is to the west of the hamlet on the site of a World War I gravel works.{{cite web |url=http://www.essexwt.org.uk/reserves/colne-point |title=Colne Point Nature Reserve |publisher=Essex Wildlife Trust |accessdate=17 January 2017}} Jaywick Martello Tower is {{convert|1.8|mi}} east of Lee-over-Sands.

The area is subject to flooding, and was severely affected by the North Sea flood of 1953,{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1419428/Night-when-sea-came-two-miles-inland.html |title=Night when sea came two miles inland |author=Charles Clover |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |date=20 January 2003 |accessdate=21 January 2017}}{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/3351852/All-aboard-the-seaside-special.html |title=All aboard the seaside special |author=Ross Clark |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |date=9 August 2006 |accessdate=17 January 2017 |quote=A lot of the huts were lost in the 1953 floods," Bedford adds, "and the others went into steady decline. But they seem to be on their way up again.}} when the seawall was breached in many locations near the village.{{cite web |url=http://www.stosyth.gov.uk/default.asp?calltype=feb03floodstory |title=The 1953 Flood |publisher=St Osyth Parish Council |accessdate=21 January 2017 |quote=The sea had broken over and through the sea wall at St Osyth Beach but the main break had been at Lee over Sands so the tidal wave was West/East toward Jaywick.}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rKo7AwAAQBAJ |title=The 1953 Essex Flood Disaster: The People's Story |author=Patricia Rennoldson Smith |publisher=The History Press |year=2012 |isbn=9780752494586 |accessdate=21 January 2017}} Thirty-seven people died in nearby Jaywick, {{convert|3|mi}} east of Lee-over-Sands.{{cite web |url=http://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/the-1953-floods-in-essex/ |title=The 1953 Floods in Essex |publisher=Essex Record Office |date=31 January 2013 |accessdate=21 January 2017}} In January 2017 following a threat of coastal flooding,{{cite news|url=http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/jaywick_in_essex_to_be_evacuated_as_strong_winds_and_rain_threaten_to_create_coastal_flooding_1_4846861|title=Jaywick in Essex to be evacuated as strong winds and rain threaten to create coastal flooding|newspaper=East Anglian Daily Times|date=12 January 2017|accessdate=12 January 2017}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-38600054|title=Jaywick to be evacuated over flood fears|work=BBC News|date=12 January 2017|accessdate=12 January 2017}} an evacuation of 2,500 homes in Lee-over-Sands and nearby Jaywick was planned, but in the event not required.{{cite news |url=http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/local_news/15019820.UPDATED__Thousands_of_villagers_to_be_evacuated_ahead_of_storm_surge_threat/ |title=Up to 2,500 homes in Jaywick and Lee-Over-Sands to be evacuated ahead of storm surge threat |author=Chris Wilkin |newspaper=Basildon Echo |date=12 January 2017 |accessdate=13 January 2017}}

A number of houses are on the seaward side of the seawall, on Beach Road. One house on Beach Road won the RIBA East Award 2017 and the RIBA East Small Project Award 2017, and was long-listed for the national RIBA House of the Year award.{{cite web |url=https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/awards/riba-regional-awards/riba-east-award-winners/2017/redshank |title=Redshank |work=Architecture.com |publisher=RIBA |year=2017 |accessdate=15 November 2017}}{{cite web |url=https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/awards/riba-house-of-the-year |title=RIBA House of the Year |work=Architecture.com |publisher=RIBA |year=2017 |accessdate=15 November 2017}}