Little Baddow
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Little Baddow is a large thriving village
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 to the east of Chelmsford
Chelmsford
Chelmsford is the county town of Essex, England and the principal settlement of the borough of Chelmsford. It is located in the London commuter belt, approximately northeast of Charing Cross, London, and approximately the same distance from the once provincial Roman capital at Colchester...

, Essex
Essex
Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...

. The name Baddow comes from an Old English word meaning 'bad water', although this probably refers to the meadow area in Great Baddow as opposed to any water mass in Little Baddow. The village is positioned on one of the many elevated hills in Essex.

Like many English villages the mainly car owning population has led to a decline in the number of shops in the village. While the community once supported several businesses there are now none left. There are two pubs ('The Generals Arms' and 'The Rodney'), the Elm Green Preparatory School
Elm Green Preparatory School
Elm Green Preparatory School is a day school which takes boys and girls from 4 to 11. Many pupils move on at 11 to local grammar schools, others to day independent or maintained schools, with a few taking up places at boarding schools. The Headmistress, Ann Milner, is a member of the Incorporated...

, a village hall. There are two long established churches, the Anglican St Mary the Virgin and the United Reformed Church. Both churches are architecturally interesting and have long histories.

The manor was once a possession of Robert the Bruce

Thomas Hooker who founded the Colony of Connecticut lived in the village as a child and was a school teacher there before going to Holland and then to New England. (see http://www.quakersurnames.net/hooker.htm and http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/8663/thomashooker.html&date=2009-10-25+07:49:09)

Lady Victoria Bradshaw, amongst the first established advocates of female suffrage in the late 18th Century, lived at a site adjacent to Little Baddow Manor prior to its acquisition by the Strutt family in 1778.

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