Little Chesterford is a small village and civil parish in Uttlesford, Essex, in the East of England.

Close to the Cambridgeshire border, it is built principally along a single sunken lane to the east of a chalk stream tributary of the River Cam or Granta and is located 1 km southeast of Great Chesterford and some 5 km northwest of Saffron Walden.

The surrounding farmland is mostly in intensive arable use and except for areas alongside the river, some of which is liable to flooding, is classified as being of grade 2 quality.

The church of St Mary dates from the early 13th century and retains much of its original form, having a long aisleless nave and chancel under a single roof.

[3] The church was restored during the 19th century including the addition of a vestry and the building of a bell-cot for two bells at the west end.

It was built in three separate phases – a mid to late-13th century timber-framed aisled hall, flanked by a slightly later solar wing, and an earlier (early-13th century) and extremely rare stone survival in Essex that was converted into a services wing.

Opposite is a 16th-century hall house, later floored, the cross-passage blocked by a fireplace but with the frame of the original front door exposed.

A small brick bridge over the Cam, built in 1791 to replace an earlier sixteenth century one, forms the village's western boundary.

The Village Fete, usually held on the second Saturday of June, is a mixture of traditional games (splat the rat, lucky golf, target soccer, coconut shy, crockery smash) and the usual stalls (white elephant, cakes and produce, plants, books, toys) accompanied by live music, steam engine rides and tea.

Great Chesterford railway station is a kilometre away with regular services to Cambridge and London Liverpool Street.