Deep in the very heart of the Peak District countryside, the visitor will at some time come across pretty little villages such as Litton, places that are normally seen as being well off the beaten track, and yet at the same time are well worth a visit.

Litton has very little to set it aside from any other small village, yet its tiny former market place features a market cross on the green.

There are many examples of beautiful early architecture and as if to make the scene picture perfect, there is a lovely set of wooden stocks, most definitely a rarity within the Derbyshire landscape.

Litton’s place in history isn‘t exceptional and yet its early inhabitants worked in the agriculture, quarrying and mining industries.

More recently during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, its workers took to the employment being offered by the textile industry at Litton Mill on the banks of the river Wye near Cressbrook.

Conditions were harsh and the workforce were paid a pittance by today’s standards. This hardship only ended well into the twentieth century when the products changed with the times.

If the visitor takes the local landscape into consideration when looking around Litton, then they will surely not be disappointed.

For besides being close to the nearby busy village of Tideswell, about 1.6km to the west, there is also Cressbrook Dale, approximately .8 of a km to the east, with its highly noticeable ‘Peter’s Stone’, a huge natural feature in the landscape. This is easily seen from the roadside near the top end of the dale.

The village today caters mainly for the visitor, with holiday homes and guest houses offering a place to spend your holiday.

Once again, Litton is also among those who decorate one or more local wells, theirs being in the month of June.