Little Clacton Little Clacton Little Clacton is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district, in the county of Essex, England. It is located on the Tendring Peninsular, close to Clacton-on-Sea. The population of the parish at the 2011 census was 2,822. The village is approximately 12 miles South East of Colchester and 2.5 miles North of Clacton-on-Sea, and is also close to Thorpe-le-Soken where there is a railway station providing direct links to London Liverpool Street station and Clacton-on-Sea. The parish church is dedicated to St James, and is an early twelfth century Norman church building. It has three bells
Clacton-on-Sea by experts from the Navy; 2)The bombing of the Wagstaff Corner area in May 1941, which felled some well-known buildings; 3)The impact of a V2 rocket in front of the Tower Hotel, injuring dozens of troops inside though without bringing down the structure. Clacton looked out on the route taken by many of the V1 and V2 bombs aimed at London. A big role in the town's history just pre-and postwar was played by the KIngsman family, who bought and developed the Pier and ran a pleasure-steamer service from London. There was a summer sea excursion, on a larger ship,