OS grid reference NY233196 Country England Post town Keswick Shire county Cumbria Dialling code 01768 UK parliament constituency Workington | Region North West Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district CA15 District Allerdale Civil parish Above Derwent | |
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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 and the North West England constituency of the European Parliament.
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Map of Little Town, Keswick, UK
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.
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.
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, although the real Lucie lived at Skelgill.