Human settlement in England
| Little Town | |
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 Little Town seen from Catbells. Newlands Church is just visible at the top left edge of the photograph. | |
  Little TownLocation in Allerdale, CumbriaShow map of the former Allerdale Borough Little TownLocation within CumbriaShow map of Cumbria | |
| OS grid reference | NY233196 |
| Civil parish | |
| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Keswick |
| Postcode district | CA15 |
| Dialling code | 01768 |
| Police | Cumbria |
| Fire | Cumbria |
| Ambulance | North West |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | Above Derwent |
| 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 Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It is in the Penrith and Solway constituency of the United Kingdom Parliament.
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+1⁄2 miles (9 kilometres) by road from Keswick.
History
The tiny 16th-century Newlands Church is about 500 yards (450 metres) 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.
Children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter set The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (1905) in and around Little Town.
References
- "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.
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