Little Braxted is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

located near the town of

Witham Witham () is a town in the county of Essex in the East of England, with a population ( 2011 census) of 25,353. It is part of the District of Braintree and is twinned with the town of Waldbröl, Germany. Witham stands between the city of Che ...

, in the

Maldon Maldon (, locally ) is a town and civil parish on the Blackwater estuary in Essex, England. It is the seat of the Maldon District and starting point of the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation. It is known for Maldon Sea Salt which is produced ...

district, in the county of

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and Grea ...

, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 170. According to the Census there were 84 males and 86 females living in the parish in 2011. Little Braxted has a small medieval church dedicated to St Nicholas, which was extensively decorated in the Victorian era. Little Braxted has one pub, ''The Green Man''. Lawrence Washington was rector of St Nicholas's Church following his ejection from the somewhat better endowed All Saints

Purleigh Purleigh is a village on the Dengie peninsula about south of Maldon, Essex, Maldon in the English county of Essex. The village is part of the Purleigh ward of the Maldon (district), Maldon district. The place-name 'Purleigh' is first attested ...

also in Essex. 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.

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Little Braxted: Listed Buildings in Essex
Villages in Essex Civil parishes in Essex Maldon District {{Essex-geo-stub