For the poem from the Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot, see Little Gidding (poem).
Human settlement in England
Little Gidding
Little Gidding
Location within Cambridgeshire
Population
362 (with Great Gidding and Steeple Gidding)[1]
OS grid reference
TL131819
Shire county
Cambridgeshire
Region
East
Country
England
Sovereign state
United Kingdom
Post town
HUNTINGDON
Postcode district
PE28
Dialling code
01832
Police
Cambridgeshire
Fire
Cambridgeshire
Ambulance
East of England
List of places
UK
England
Cambridgeshire
52°25′N0°20′W / 52.42°N 0.33°W / 52.42; -0.33
St John's Church, Little Gidding
Little Gidding is a small village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England.[2] 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.[1] The driving distance between Little Gidding and Cambridge, to the southeast, is 30 miles.
Mary Ferrar had a tablet placed in the family's parlour. Sir Thomas Hetley requested a copy, so, although the original has long been lost, the wording and the arrangement of the original text was preserved. Here it is as published in The Life and Times of Nicholas Ferrar by H. P. K. Skipton.[3]
St John's Church, the Church of England parish church, is a Grade I listed building.[4][5]
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 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).
^ abCambridge County Council Research Group. 2001 Census Profile: Great Gidding, Little Gidding and Steeple Gidding Parishes – Huntingtdonshire Archived 18 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine from 2001 Census Key Statistics for Local Authorities (Published: October 2003). Retrieved 5 January 2013. Note: These three parishes are combined because one of them, Little Gidding, is too small to be enumerated separately in accordance with British privacy laws.
(293 hectares), LittleGidding recorded a population of 22 in the 1991 British Census. With the neighbouring villages of Great Gidding (where the population...
Eliot composed the other three poems, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and LittleGidding, which were written during World War II and the air-raids on Great Britain...
Company and retreated with his extended family in 1626 to the manor of LittleGidding, Huntingdonshire, for his remaining years, in an informal spiritual...
the LittleGidding community. Since there was no formal Rule (such as the Rule of Saint Benedict), no vows taken, and no enclosure, LittleGidding cannot...
matriarch of the Ferrar family who with her son Nicholas Ferrar founded the LittleGidding religious community in Huntingdonshire in 1625. She was born in 1551...
Gidding is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles Gidding (1853–1943), United States Navy sailor John Gidding (born 1977), American...
and all manner of thing shall be well" three times into his poem "LittleGidding", the fourth of his Four Quartets (1943), as well as Julian's "the ground...
where we started / And know the place for the first time' (T. S. Eliot, LittleGidding, lines 241-42). The Prelude opens with a literal journey [during his...
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form include W. H. Auden ("The Sea and the Mirror"), T. S. Eliot ("LittleGidding"), Robert Frost ("Acquainted with the Night"), Elizabeth Jennings, Philip...
history of LittleGidding, later to be the title for one of Eliot's Four Quartets through his draft verse play Stalemate at LittleGidding. On the occasion...
film by Ray Yeung Four Quartets, a set of poems by T. S. Eliot, whose "LittleGidding" quotes Julian's words This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
was ten years older. One of his mother's ancestors had founded the LittleGidding community. Most of the more recent generations of his family had worked...
Dorothy, although Eliot was unaware of this arrangement. It generated very little interest until after the publication of The Waste Land, and did not sell...
Folksworth and Washingley Glatton, Grafham, Great Gransden, Great, Little and Steeple Gidding, Great Paxton, Great Staughton Haddon, Hail Weston, Hamerton,...
scythe." T. S. Eliot, after his conversion to Anglicanism, wrote in "LittleGidding" (one of his Four Quartets): "Love is the unfamiliar Name / Behind the...
1688) was an English bookbinder and sericulturist involved with the LittleGidding community in Cambridgeshire. She was born on Christmas Eve 1627. Her...
"a character to the household almost resembling that of LittleGidding". The LittleGidding community in Huntingdonshire was much idealized by 19th-century...
divines and with the pietistic emphases of the period, practised by the LittleGidding community, such as fasting and lengthy preparations before receiving...
Festival at LittleGidding in 2006, 70 years after Eliot's visit there, Padel described the contrast between Eliot's memories of LittleGidding and his experience...
with Nicholas Ferrar and participated in his LittleGidding community, a family religious group. LittleGidding was noted for its adherence to High Church...
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