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.
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| 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 maintains a quiet, unassuming presence amidst the flat, productive fields of the Braintree district. It lies 2.4 miles west-south-west of Braintree (from Braintree: bearing 251°T, OS grid TL 722 216), and is situated south-south-west of Rayne village. The landscape here is defined by an open, expansive horizon where the light catches the turned earth in long, pale streaks during the autumn harvest. To the south-south-west, the orderly rows of the Felstar Vineyard and Brewery offer a sharp contrast to the wild, unkempt hedges that line the narrow country lanes. A short distance to the north-north-east, the Flitch Way Railway Carriage Museum preserves the industrial ghost of a vanished rail line, grounding Little Common in the echoes of steam and iron. Further east, the sprawling expanse of Great Notley Country Park provides a green lung for the region, where the wind moves across the grass with a restless, audible sigh. The pace of life in Little Common remains tethered to the slow rotation of the seasons, indifferent to the hurried transit of the nearby market town. These fields possess a stark, unadorned beauty that rewards the patient observer who stops to watch the evening shadows lengthen across the stubble.
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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 | August 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. |