Welcome to the official web site of Littleton Parish Council. Littleton is a small Cheshire village only three miles from the city of Chester. While mainly residential, it has its rural side, with several farms and nurseries within the Parish Boundary.
A Littleton website was originally developed by Mitch Baines in 2000, to present information both on the Parish Council and the community activities in the parish.
Littleton was first recorded in 1435. Although often in the shadow of its bigger neighbour, Christleton, Littleton or Little Christleton as it was first known, has its own community and an interesting history. The A51 Tarvin Road and Fir Tree Lane were original Roman roads connecting Chester to Roman garrisons in the north, the former was also part of the famous London-Holyhead post road.
Once the home of the Cheshire Point-to-Point racecourse, Littleton is home to Chester Rugby Football Club and has the Vicars Cross Golf Club on its outskirts. During the Second World War the village housed American forces – their camp later becoming an Italian POW establishment.
A book “Littleton – A Brief History” was published by Peter McCready in 1999. Copies are available from the Barnhouse Vetinary Practise at the junction of Tarvin Road and Littleton Lane.
The community on the main Tarvin road was called, until rather recently, Vicar’s Cross after a stone cross which originally stood near the road. This was demolished by Puritans in 1613, but a replica has been erected nearly 400 years later not too far from the original site.