Littleton is first mentioned by name and it was mentioned as such as a manor in 1165–67, when it was held as one knight's fee in among the barony of William Blunt, Baron of Ixworth, whose father Gilbert had also held it. In the Second Barons' War, his namesake and heir died at the Battle of Evesham in 1265. For the following three centuries right up to the Dissolution of the Monasteries a mesne lordship, providing intermediate revenues in the hierarchical structure was a right belonging to Westminster Abbey. Seated elsewhere, the Blunts let the manor to the (de) Littleton then (de) Leveland families. The latter briefly became the de Grendon family before reverting name and whose descendants by a sole female heir's marriage became Sench. In 1351 Roger Sapurton succeeded, as with the Leveland heir his father having been custodian of Westminster Palace and the Fleet Prison. By marriage, William Venour acquired it, keeper of the Fleet in 1440 before seemingly passing to Ellen Markham née Sapurton, who conveyed it (sold it) with her husband Robert in 1528 to Anthony Windesore or Windsor, of the landed Windsor family of Stanwell. In 1573 it was sold to Thomas Newdigate whose family married Anne Seymour, the Duchess of Somerset and whole offspring, the Earls of Hertford held it until sale in 1627. Later owners included Moore, Goodlad, and Lambell before selling it to Thomas Wood , owners of the second manor in the parish, that of Astlam (or Astleham) in 1783. This family held it until at least 1911. One such owner was General Sir David Wood (1812–94), the son of Colonel Thomas Wood of Littleton. He served in the Boer campaign of 1842–3, and commanded the Royal Artillery at Balaclava, Inkerman, and Sebastopol, and the Horse Artillery in the Indian Mutiny.