Welcome to Little Gidding
CLICK FOR 2021 CENSUS DATAIntroduction
Little Gidding is a small village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. It lies approximately 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Huntingdon, near Sawtry, within Huntingdonshire, which is a district of Cambridgeshire as well as a historic county. A small parish of 724 acres (293 hectares), Little Gidding recorded a population of 22 in the 1991 British Census. With the neighbouring villages of Great Gidding (where the population was in 2011 included) and Steeple Gidding, the total population was 362 in 2001. The driving distance between Little Gidding and Cambridge, to the southeast, is 30 miles. St John's Church, the Church of England parish church, is a Grade I listed building.Little Gidding was the home of a small Anglican religious community established in 1626 by Nicholas Ferrar, two of his siblings and their extended families. It was founded around strict adherence to Christian worship in accordance with the Book of Common Prayer and the High Church (or Anglo-Catholic) heritage of the Church of England. Charles I visited Little Gidding three times. The community continued for 20 years after Ferrar's death, until after the deaths of his brother and sister in 1657. In the 20th century, the poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) was inspired by the legacy of the religious community at Little Gidding. He incorporated historical elements and symbols of it into his long poem, "Little Gidding", as part of his collection Four Quartets (1945).
Parish Information
Parish statistics
Area |
293 hectares |
|---|---|
Population |
341 (2021) |
Density |
116 people/km2 |
Mean age |
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Ward |
Stilton, Folksworth & Washingley |
District |
Huntingdonshire |
Postcodes |
PE28 |
ONS ID |
E04001720 |
Council
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Education
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Business
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Planning
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Property
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Heritage
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