Little Saxham

Little Saxham
Little Saxham St Nicholas
Little Saxham is located in Suffolk
Little Saxham
Little Saxham
Location within Suffolk
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
List of places
UK
England
Suffolk
52°14′N 0°37′E / 52.23°N 00.62°E / 52.23; 00.62

Little Saxham is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of The Saxhams, in the West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. The village appears as Sexham in the Domesday Book[1] and as Saxham Parva in 1254.[2] In 1961 the parish had a population of 92.[3] On 1 April 1988 the parish was merged with Great Saxham to form "The Saxhams".[4]

  1. ^ Open Domesday Online: (Great and Little) Saxham
  2. ^ Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 405-06. ISBN 0198691033.
  3. ^ "Population Statistics Little Saxham AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  4. ^ "The St. Edmundsbury (Parishes) Order 1988" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 30 January 2020.