Little Oakley is a village in Essex, England, on the western outskirts of Harwich. The parish population at the 2011 census was 1,171. [1]
It is the site of a fourth-century Roman villa, excavated between 1951 and 1975. [2]
Just north-east of the village is Little Oakley Channel Deposit, a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest. It is the site of former channel of the River Thames during an interglacial period about 575,000 years ago.
51°55′06″N 1°14′06″E / 51.91833°N 1.23500°E