Traditional county: Essex · District / Borough: Chelmsford · Region: Eastern
Explore Little Waltham, Essex with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Little Waltham 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 Waltham |
| Traditional County | Essex |
| District / Borough | Chelmsford |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.789010 |
| Longitude | 0.474854 |
| Place Type | Village |
Little Waltham breathes a quiet air of settled Englishness, a place content in its own modest sphere. It lies 5.8 km north of Chelmsford (from Chelmsford: bearing 1°T, OS grid TL 707 129), and is situated east-south-east of Great Waltham village. The landscape around Little Waltham is a gentle unfolding of fields, where the sky often seems an immense, pale blue canvas, broken only by the distant silhouette of ancient oaks. The village itself, though small, possesses a church, St. Martin's, whose weathered stone has borne witness to centuries of local life, its spire a quiet sentinel against the prevailing winds. The very soil here feels rich and yielding, a testament to generations of careful husbandry that have shaped the hedgerows and the arable land into a pleasing, if unassuming, pattern. Little Waltham remains a place where the passage of time is marked less by grand pronouncements and more by the slow turning of the seasons across its quiet lanes.
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Explore Little Waltham, 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: 51.789010, 0.474854. 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. |