In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Litton like this:
LITTON, a hamlet in Tideswell parish, Derby; ¾ of a mile E of Tideswell. It has a post office under Sheffield. Real property, £3,613; of which £10 are in quarries. Pop., 974. Houses, 1 77. The manor belongs to Lord Scarsdale. Some of the inhabitants are employed in stocking-weaving, and some in lead mines. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists. Bagshaw, "the apostle of the Peak," was a native.
Litton through time
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