Little Braxted

Little Braxted
St Nicholas's Church, Little Braxted
Little Braxted Location within Essex
Population	175 (Parish, 2021) [1]
OS grid reference	TL 835 147
Civil parish	Little Braxted
District	Maldon
Shire county	Essex
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Witham
Postcode district	CM8
Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	Witham
List of places UK England Essex 51°48′04″N0°39′40″E / 51.801°N 0.661°E / 51.801; 0.661

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

1. "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.)
2. "Little Braxted: St Nicholas, Village - Essex". Achurchnearyou.com. Diocese of Chelmsford. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
3. "Welcome to the Green Man". The Green Man, Little Braxted. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
4. "Essex Family History". 26 July 2013. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
5. Wilson, John Marius (1870–72). Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. Edinburgh: A. Fullerton & Co.

External links

• Little Braxted: Listed Buildings in Essex