Little Town, Cumberland
| Little Town | |
| Cumberland | |
|---|---|
 Little Town from Catbells | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NY233196 |
| Location: | 54°33’57"N, 3°11’7"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Keswick |
| Postcode: | CA15 |
| Dialling code: | 01768 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cumberland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Workington |
| Website: | Above Derwent Parish |
Little Town is a hamlet in Cumberland, in the Newlands Valley, separated from Derwent Water to the east by the summit of Catbells.
The hamlet is within the Lake District National Park, about five and a half miles by road from Keswick.
History
The tiny 16th-century Newlands Church is about 500 yards 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.
The children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter set The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (1905) in and around Little Town. The tale's child heroine Lucie was inspired by the real world one-year-old Lucie Carr, the daughter of the vicar of the Newlands Church. In the tale, Lucie lives at Little-town farm in the book, although the real Lucie lived at Skelgill.[1]
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References
- ↑ Taylor, Judy; Whalley, Joyce Irene; Hobbs, Anne Stevenson; Battrick, Elizabeth M (1987). Beatrix Potter, 1866–1943: The Artist and Her World. Frederick Warne & Co. pp. 120–3. ISBN 0-7232-3561-9.