Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OAKLEY (Little)

OAKLEY (Little), a parish in Tendring district, Essex; 1¾ mile N E of Great Oakley, and 2¾ S S W of Dover court r. station. Post-town, Harwich. Acres, 1, 119; of which 90 are water. Real property, £1, 903. Pop., 306. Houses, 66. The property is chiefly divided between two. The manor belongs to SirH. Rowley, Bart. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £428.* Patron, the Rev. G. Burmester. The church comprises decorated English nave and chancel, and later English tower; and contains a new stone reredos and a new font. There is a national school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Little Oakley AP/CP       Tendring RegD/PLU       Essex AncC
Place names: LITTLE OAKLEY     |     OAKLEY     |     OAKLEY LITTLE
Place: Little Oakley

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