Traditional county: Essex · District / Borough: Braintree · Region: Eastern
Explore Little Common, Essex with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Little Common map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
| Place | Little Common |
| Traditional County | Essex |
| District / Borough | Braintree |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.866785 |
| Longitude | 0.500999 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Little Common breathes the quiet air of the Essex countryside. It lies 3.8 km west-south-west of Braintree (from Braintree: bearing 251°T, OS grid TL 722 216), and is situated south-south-west of Rayne village. Here, the land gently slopes, a subtle canvas for the shifting light that paints the fields in hues of gold and ochre. The houses, clustered with a sense of shared quietude, seem to draw sustenance from the rich earth around them. One might imagine the distant murmur of ploughshares, a sound that has echoed across these fields for generations. Little Common, in its unassuming fashion, holds the enduring character of agricultural England.
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Explore Little Common, Essex, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.866785, 0.500999. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | June 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |