Little Clacton is Part of the Essex Sunshine Coast on the Tendring Peninsular. Close to Clacton-on-Sea in Essex.The village of Little Clacton is part of the Essex Sunshine Coast.

About 12 miles South East of Colchester and 5 miles North of Clacton-on-Sea. It is ideally situated for exploring the Tendring Peninsular.

Being only a short distance from Clacton-on-Sea sea front and twelve miles from the ancient town of Colchester and the Essex and Suffolk countryside. Little Clacton is close enough for the convenience of the towns, but far enough away from the Razzamatazz.

The following are extracts from the History, Gazetteer, and Directory of the County of Essex

by William White published in 1848.

CLACTON, LITTLE,
a pleasant scattered village, occupies a level site, nearly 2 miles N. of Great Clacton, and 12 miles E.S.E. of Colchester. It has a fair on the 25th. of July, and its parish contains 547 souls, and 2908 acres of land. W. F. Nassau, Esq., is lord of the two manors, but a greater part of the soil belongs to
P. Bennett, Esq., the Naval Knights of Windsor, Miss Harding, Miss Freeman, and several others.
The copyholds are subject to arbitrary fines. The manor, Geddy Hall, has been held by the Cary, Webb, and other families, and that of Bovils, by the Dorell, Travers, and Holditch families.
The Church, (St. James) is a small ancient structure, which was re-pewed in 1847. It was appropriated to St. Osyth Priory, and the great tithes now belong to the principal land owners. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in K.B. at £6. 13s. 4d., and in 1831 at £120. It is in the patronage of W. F. Nassau, Esq., and incumbency of Rev. J. L. Kirby, B.A., who has a good residence, built in 1839, and £156 a year in lieu of tithes
A legacy of £100, left for the poor by Wm. Hubbard, in 1596, was laid out in the purchase of 22A. of land, at St. Osyth, now let for £34, which is distributed in blankets, coals, meat, and small sums of money, except £1 carried to the Sunday school account.