Little Totham, Essex
Historical Description
Totham, Little, a parish in Essex, 2½ miles ENE of Maldon station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Witham; money order and telegraph office, Tolleshunt D'Arcy. Acreage, 1294; population of the civil parish, 323; of the ecclesiastical, with Goldhanger, 812. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to the Bawtree family. The living is a rectory, annexed to Goldhanger, in the diocese of St Albans; joint gross yearly value, £915. The church is a small but ancient building in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a western tower.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Essex | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Little Totham All Saints | |
Hundred | Thurstable | |
Poor Law union | Maldon |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Little Totham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Totham, Little (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Essex is available to browse.
The Essex pages from the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 is online.
Maps
Online maps of Little Totham are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Essex online: