Little Braxted

{{Short description|Village in Essex, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place|

|country = England

|static_image_name=St Nicholas, Little Braxted (geograph 2912610).jpg

|static_image_caption=St Nicholas's Church, Little Braxted

|coordinates = {{coord|51.801|0.661|display=inline,title}}

|official_name= Little Braxted

|civil_parish= Little Braxted

|population = 170

|population_ref = (2011 census)

|shire_district= Maldon

| shire_county = Essex

|region= East of England

|constituency_westminster= Witham

|post_town= Witham

|postcode_district=CM8

|postcode_area=CM

|dial_code=

|os_grid_reference= TL 835 147

}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11125662&c=CM8+3ED&d=16&e=62&g=6425511&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1443004530155&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=23 September 2015}} According to the Census there were 84 males and 86 females living in the parish in 2011.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11125662&c=little+braxted&d=16&e=62&g=6425511&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1485948265803&enc=1|title= (Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics|last=|first=|date=|website=Neighbourhood Statistics|publisher=Office for National Statistics|access-date=1 February 2017}} Little Braxted has a small medieval church dedicated to St Nicholas, which was extensively decorated in the Victorian era.{{cite web|url=http://www.achurchnearyou.com/little-braxted-st-nicholas/ |title=Little Braxted: St Nicholas, Village - Essex |publisher=Diocese of Chelmsford |website=Achurchnearyou.com |accessdate=10 August 2017}}

Little Braxted has one pub, The Green Man.{{cite web|url=http://www.greenmanlittlebraxted.co.uk |title=Welcome to the Green Man |publisher=The Green Man, Little Braxted |accessdate=10 August 2017}}

Lawrence Washington was rector of St Nicholas's Church following his ejection from the somewhat better endowed All Saints Purleigh also in Essex.{{cite web |title=Essex Family History |url=http://www.essex-family-history.co.uk:80/washington.htm |access-date=12 January 2021 |date=26 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726052035/http://www.essex-family-history.co.uk:80/washington.htm |archive-date=26 July 2013 }}

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.{{Cite book|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/856060|title=Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales|last=Wilson|first=John Marius|publisher=A. Fullerton & Co.|date=1870{{ndash}}72|isbn=|location=Edinburgh|pages=|quote=|via=}}