Little Town, Cumbria

Human settlement in England

Above Derwent

District

Allerdale

Cumbria

Region

North West

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townKeswickPostcode districtCA15Dialling code01768PoliceCumbriaFire Cumbria Ambulance North West UK Parliament

Workington

WebsiteAbove Derwent

List of places: UK; England; Cumbria

54°33′57″N 3°11′07″W / 54.5657°N 3.1852°W / 54.5657; -3.1852

Little Town is a hamlet in the civil parish of Above Derwent, in the Allerdale district of Cumbria, England. It is in the Workington constituency of the United Kingdom Parliament. Prior to Brexit in 2020 it was part of the North West England constituency of the European Parliament.^[1]

Little Town is in the Lake District National Park. It is in the Newlands Valley, separated from Derwent Water to the east by the summit of Catbells. The hamlet is about 5.5 miles (9 km) by road from Keswick.^[2]

History

The tiny 16th-century Newlands Church is about 500 yards (460 m) west of Little Town. William Wordsworth visited this church in 1826 while on a walking tour of the fells, and that he was so impressed by his first glimpse of the church through half-opened leaves that he wrote a stanza in his poem To May.^[3]

Children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter set The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (1905) in and around Little Town.^[4]

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Little Town, Cumbria.

^ "Election Maps". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 20 January 2010.
^ "Newlands Valley, Cumbria". Visit Cumbria. Archived from the original on 24 January 2010. Retrieved 20 January 2010.
^ "Newlands Church, Cumbria". Visit Cumbria. Archived from the original on 3 January 2010. Retrieved 20 January 2010.
^ Taylor, Judy; Whalley, Joyce Irene; Hobbs, Anne Stevenson; Battrick, Elizabeth M (1987). Beatrix Potter, 1866–1943: The Artist and Her World. F. Warne & Co and The National Trust. pp. 120–3. ISBN 0-7232-3561-9.