Little Clacton Essex Family History Guide
Little Clacton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. James
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1538
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1629; 1639; 1800
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CLACTON (Little), a parish in Tendring district, Essex; 7 miles SE by E of Wivenhoe r. station, and 11 SE of Colchester. It has a post-office under Colchester, and a fair on 25 July.
Acres, 2, 966. Real property, £5, 098. Pop., 584. Houses, 130. The property is subdivided.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £115. Patron, F. Nassau, Esq. The church is good; and there is a Wesleyan chapel.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CLACTON, LITTLE (St. James), a parish, in the union and hundred of Tendring, N. division of Essex, 12½ miles (E. S. E.) from Colchester; containing 547 inhabitants.
It forms part of a small district mentioned in the Norman survey under the name Clackintuna; the lands are low, and of a great portion of them the soil is strong and heavy.
The village is pleasantly situated round a small green, on which a fair is held on the 25th of July.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £6. 13. 4.; patron and impropriator, F. Nassau, Esq. The great tithes have been commuted for £612. 10., and the vicarial for £156; the glebe comprises nearly 3 acres, with a glebe-house. The church is a small edifice, with a turret of wood.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Essex
- Civil Registration District: Tendring
- Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (Essex and Hertfordshire Division)
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – Tendring, Post-1846 – St Osyth
- Poor Law Union: Tendring
- Hundred: Tendring
- Province: Canterbury