Little Henny (previously spelt Little Henney[1]) is a hamlet and civil parish in the Braintree district[2] in the county of Essex, England.

[4][5][6] The name Henny comes from the Old English words heah and eg, meaning high island.

[10] In 1934, the civil parish transferred to Halstead Rural District under a County Review Order designated in the Local Government Act of 1929.

[13] However the parish continued to be served by Rectors who were based in Sudbury, and the Rector paid an annual stipend to St Mary's Church at Great Henny for parishioners to have access to the pews and be buried in the graveyard.

[22] The Ryes, formerly known as Rye Lodge, is a Grade II Georgian House designed by Robert Lugar, whose engraving of the house and its plans were exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1809.