'The Slack' not far from Cressbrook ... is a small row of cottages, standing on a bleak and wild looking moor-like prominence, as if the buildings had been lifted out of the adjoining valley to look about them.

Thomas Brushfield, 1865

Image of Littonslack circa 1860?

Littonslack is a small hamlet lying roughly halfway between thevillages of Litton and Cressbrook and just North of Litton Mill. In the 1800s it comprised just 10 terraced cottages. The postcard here, date unknown, shows the front (south facing view) of the 10 cottages. 

In the early 1900s a further house was built at the easterly end of the row and more recently a farmhouse was built nearby. "Littonslack" can also be written as two words "Litton Slack" and is locally known as "The Slack".  In the late 18th and early 19th centuries it was known as Litton Mill Slack.

Over the last few years I have been researching the history of Littonslack ... when were the cottages built? ... who were they built for? ... who built them?  And whereas there are no absolute answers to those questions the research has moved slowly closer to some conclusions ... and at the same time thrown up many secondary, but remarkable, facts.