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LITTONSLACK LAND OWNERSHIP Since the mid Twentieth Century the houses have been individually owned. Before that the cottages tended to be owned by one person (or partnership) and let to tenants. In the late Eighteenth Century the land was owned by Sir Richard Arkwright. See 1820s link The land and buildings (although we do not know if the cottages were built then) was sold to Ellis Needham, the owner of Litton Mill. The date is at the moment unknown but this was probably in the 1780s. We know from Births Marriages and Deaths that the cottages are there by February 1796 - but we first see the cottages for sale, by Ellis Needham's Assignees, in 1818 (this follows from his bankruptcy in 1815). See 1800-1819 link The cottages are again for sale, by the Assignee's of Needham's estate, in 1822. See 1820s link Little is known after that until they are in the ownership of John Booth Gaskell and George Bagshaw who in 1878 sell them to Thomas Lomas a farmer of Littonslack. The cottage ownership then becomes briefly fragmented but all cottages are shown unoccupied in the 1891 census and appear to be bought up by Thomas Lomas' son Lomas; Richard Lomas.