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Little Yeldham
Little Yeldham church - geograph.org.uk - 580847.jpg
St. John the Baptist church, Little Yeldham
Little Yeldham is located in Essex
Little Yeldham
Little Yeldham
Population 355 (2021)
OS grid reference TL775395
District
  • Braintree
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Halstead
Postcode district CO9
Dialling code 01787
Police Essex
Fire Essex
Ambulance East of England
EU Parliament East of England
UK Parliament
  • Braintree
List of places
UK
England
Essex
52°01′32″N 0°35′30″E / 52.02567°N 0.591803°E / 52.02567; 0.591803

Little Yeldham is a small village in north west Essex, approximately one mile north east of Great Yeldham.

History

The Domesday Book of 1086 records Yeldham (now Great Yeldham and Little Yeldham) as being in the hundred of Hinckford and having a population of 40 households. The settlement is listed under four owners: Count Eustace (of Boulogne), Count Alan (of Brittany), Richard son of (Count) Gilbert and Ranulf brother of Ilger.

In 1818 the population was 221 with a Sunday School attendance of 56 children. By 1833 the population was 371 with a Sunday School attendance of 71 (31 males, 40 females).

Buildings

Little Yeldham church - geograph.org.uk - 580847
St John the Baptist church

St John the Baptist church stands on the east side of the village. The walls are of flint and pebble rubble and the roofs are tiled. The nave of the church was probably built in the 12th or 13th century, but the west wall was rebuilt in the 19th century. The chancel was rebuilt in the 15th century. There are two bells said to be by Miles Graye, 1674.

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