Little Braxted
| Little Braxted | |
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.jpg) St Nicholas's Church, Little Braxted | |
  Little Braxted Location within Essex | |
| Population | 175 (Parish, 2021)[1] |
| OS grid reference | TL 835 147 |
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| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Witham |
| Postcode district | CM8 |
| Police | Essex |
| Fire | Essex |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| UK Parliament | |
Little Braxted is a village and civil parish located near the town of Witham, in the Maldon district, in the county of Essex, England. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 175.
Little Braxted has a small medieval church dedicated to St Nicholas, which was extensively decorated in the Victorian era.[2] Little Braxted has one pub, The Green Man.[3]
Lawrence Washington was rector of St Nicholas's Church following his ejection from the somewhat better endowed All Saints Purleigh also in Essex.[4]
In the 1870s Little Braxted was described as having:
Acres, 563. Real property, £1,173. Pop., 111. Houses, 23. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester Value, £118. Patrons, Trustees of Sir W. B. Rush. The church is good.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "2021 Census Parish Profiles". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 March 2025. (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.)
- ^ "Little Braxted: St Nicholas, Village - Essex". Achurchnearyou.com. Diocese of Chelmsford. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
- ^ "Welcome to the Green Man". The Green Man, Little Braxted. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
- ^ "Essex Family History". 26 July 2013. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
- ^ Wilson, John Marius (1870–72). Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. Edinburgh: A. Fullerton & Co.
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