LITTON (LYTTON), Derbyshire

Bibliography

• Authors, Various - Behind the View: Life & times in Cressbrook - a Derbyshire mill village. Published locally, 2005. ISBN 0-9551750-0-3.

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Census

• The parish was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Christ.
  
  
• The church was built in the late 1920s.
  
  
• The church was consecrated in 1928. Prior to that date, Anglican services were held in the loacl schoolroom.

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Church Records

• The church was in the rural deanery of Buxton.
  
  
• The Methodist chapel was built in 1834.
  
  
• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St John the Baptist's Church Tideswell contains entries for Litton residents. Added 22 May 2007.

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"LITTON, a hamlet in the parish of Tideswell, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 1 mile S.E. of Tideswell, and 6 miles N.W. of Bakewell. It lies in the Dale of Litton Frith, near Monsal Dale. There are lead mines, in which some of the people are employed, but the neighbourhood is chiefly agricultural. Many of the females are engaged in stocking knitting. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have places of worship. There are a few small charities. This was the birth-place in 1628 of William Bagshaw, the celebrated Nonconformist divine called the “Apostle of the Peak”."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

You may want to visit the Litton Village Website.

Andrew HILL has a photograph of approaching Litton on Geo-graph, taken in 2012.

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History

• The village is mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book (as "Litun").
  
  
• The village hall was built in 1907, originally as a Working Men's Club.

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient township and hamlet in Tideswell parish in county Derby and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act this parish became part of the Bakewell Poolaw Union.
  

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