Little Braxted
| Little Braxted | |
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.jpg) St Nicholas's Church, Little Braxted | |
  Little Braxted Location within Essex | |
| Population | 170 (2011 census) |
| OS grid reference | TL 835 147 |
| Civil parish |
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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. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 170.[1] According to the Census there were 84 males and 86 females living in the parish in 2011.[2] Little Braxted has a small medieval church dedicated to St Nicholas, which was extensively decorated in the Victorian era.[3] Little Braxted has one pub, The Green Man.[4]
Lawrence Washington was rector of St Nicholas's Church following his ejection from the somewhat better endowed All Saints Purleigh also in Essex.[5]
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.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 23 September 2015.
- ^ "<parish name> (Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
- ^ "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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