Litton is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in Littondale in the Yorkshire Dales in England. It lies in the

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, up Littondale from Arncliffe. From Litton a footpath leads over the fells to the north east to Buckden in

Wharfedale Wharfedale ( ) is the valley of the upper parts of the River Wharfe and one of the Yorkshire Dales. It is situated within the districts of Craven and Harrogate in North Yorkshire, and the cities of Leeds and Bradford in West Yorkshire. It i ...

. The population of the civil parish was estimated at 70 in 2015. The centre of the village is an old public house, the Queens Arms, that dates back to the 17th century. Associated with the Queens Arms since 2003 is the Lamb Brewing Company (previously the Litton Brewery) that brews Litton Ale. Litton was mentioned in the

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of 1086 (as ''Litone''). The name probably comes from the

Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...

''hlið'' "hillside" and ''tūn'' "farmstead". Litton was historically a

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in the

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of Arncliffe, part of

Staincliffe Wapentake Staincliffe, also known as Staincliff, was a wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England. From 1889 to 1974 the administrative county County of York, ...

in the

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. Litton became a separate civil parish in 1866.Vision of Britain website
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in 1974.

References

External links

Yorkshire Images site for Litton
Villages in North Yorkshire Civil parishes in North Yorkshire {{craven-geo-stub