Little Clacton

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St James' church, Little Clacton

Little Clacton is a small rural village and parish in Essex. It is located on the Tendring Peninsula, close to Clacton-on-Sea. The population of the parish at the 2011 census was 2,822.[1]

The village is approximately 12 miles south-east of Colchester and 2½ miles north of Clacton-on-Sea, and is also close to Thorpe-le-Soken where there is a railway station providing direct links to London Liverpool Street station and Clacton-on-Sea.

The parish church is dedicated to St James,[2] and is an early twelfth-century Norman church building.[3] It has three bells in its tower, including one cast by Robert Crouch and dating from 1437.[4]

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