Little Oakley, Essex

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Little Oakley
Essex
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Little Oakley Hall
Location
Location: 51°54’57"N, 1°12’50"E
Data
Population: 1,171  (2011)
Post town: Harwich
Postcode: CO12
Dialling code: 01255
Local Government
Council: Tendring

Little Oakley is a village and parish in Essex, on the western outskirts of Harwich. The parish population at the 2011 census was 1,171.[1]

It is the site of a fourth-century Roman villa, excavated between 1951 and 1975.[2]

Just north-east of the village is Little Oakley Channel Deposit, a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest. It is the site of former channel of the River Thames during an interglacial period about 575,000 years ago.

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