Little Town, Cumbria
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. Prior to Brexit in 2020 it was part of the North West England constituency of the European Parliament. 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 by road from Keswick. History. The tiny 16th-century Newlands Church is about 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.