Little Town (Cumbria)
Coordinates: 54 ° 34 ′ N , 3 ° 11 ′ W
Little Town is a hamlet in the Newlands Valley in the Lake District , Cumbria , England . The settlement is about 9 km from Keswick and belongs to the civil parish Above Derwent .
The Keskadale Beck flows west of Little Town into the Newlands Beck .
Little Town is the start and end point of the Newlands Horseshoe Loop Walk.
The hamlet was immortalized literarily by Beatrix Potter in her book The Tales of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle . The main character of the book Lucie lives on the "Little-town farm", by which the settlement in the Newlands Valley is meant. The character itself was inspired by the daughter of the vicar of Newlands Church Lucie Carr, whom Potter met on a visit to the Lake District in 1901.
Newlands Church, located about 450 m west of Little Town ( 54 ° 33 ′ 48.4 ″ N , 3 ° 11 ′ 35.7 ″ W ), can be documented for the first time in the 16th century, but the current building dates back to from the 19th century is nevertheless a Grade II protected monument.
An extension originally used as a school was added to the church in 1877. The school closed in 1967.
The poet William Wordsworth saw the church on a hike in May 1826 through some trees and recorded this impression in a stanza of his poem "To May".
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- Newlands Valley on Visit Cumbria
- Newlands Church on Visit Cumbria
- Newlands Church and Former School at English Heritage
Web links
- William Wordsworth, To May (lines 81-88) here: online