Traditional county: Essex · District / Borough: Epping Forest · Region: Eastern
Explore Little End, Essex with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Little End 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 End |
| Traditional County | Essex |
| District / Borough | Epping Forest |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.681050 |
| Longitude | 0.227778 |
| Place Type | Village |
Little End emerges from the quiet sprawl of the Epping Forest district, a modest collection of dwellings that hold the light of the Essex sky with a particular, pale intensity. It lies 1.8 miles south-south-west of Chipping Ongar (from Chipping Ongar: bearing 205°T, OS grid TL 541 003). The topography here remains dictated by the slow, deliberate movement of water, evidenced by the proximity of Stanford Hall Brook, which carves a narrow, silvered path through the heavy clay soils just to the north-north-west. Beyond the immediate cluster of homes, the land retains the memory of older, more defensive configurations, marked by the presence of the Moated Site In Fortification Wood. This ancient earthwork, tucked away in the shadows of timber, offers a stark, quiet gravity that contrasts with the domestic order of Little End. The air often carries the damp, earthy scent of field and ditch, a reminder that the boundary between the cultivated garden and the wilder hedgerow remains porous. In the quiet hours of the afternoon, the horizon seems to press closer, grounding the architecture in a landscape that has long resisted the frantic pace of the nearby urban fringe. Little End keeps its own counsel, buffered by the dense, tangled thickets and the low-slung, brooding weight of the surrounding Essex fields.
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Explore Little End, 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: 51.681050, 0.227778. 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. |