Little London

Little London may refer to any of the following places:

United Kingdom

• Little London, Brill, Buckinghamshire
• Little London, Oakley, Bucks
• Little London, Cambridgeshire
• Little London, Cornwall
• Little London, East Sussex
• Little London, Essex
• Little London, Gloucestershire
• Little London, Andover, Hampshire
• Little London, Tadley, Hampshire
• Little London, Herefordshire
• Little London, Isle of Man
• Little London, Kent
• Little London, Spalding, Lincolnshire
• Little London, Stallingborough, Lincolnshire
• Little London, Southport, Merseyside
• Little London, Norfolk
• Little London, Oxfordshire
• Little London, Powys
• Little London, Shropshire
• Little London, Somerset, a part of Oakhill
• Little London (Housing Estate), Maltby, South Yorkshire
• Little London, Suffolk
• Little London, Wendover, Buckinghamshire
• Little London, West Sussex
• Little London, Walsall, West Midlands
• Little London, Leeds, West Yorkshire
• Little London, West Yorkshire, split between Rawdon, Leeds, West Yorkshire and Idle and Thackley, Bradford, West Yorkshire
• Little London, Wiltshire
• Little London, Worcestershire

Many locations bearing the name Little London or its Welsh variants Llundain fach and Llundain fechan are associated with nearby cattle drovers' routes, in particular in Wales and Southern England,^[1] and may have been named as early as in the Middle Ages. The Institute of Place Names at Nottingham confirmed the association of the place name with Welsh drovers in November 2009.

Other countries

• Little London, Jamaica
• Londrina ("Londoner" or "Little London"), Paraná, Brazil, named for British entrepreneurs who initiated the settlement
• Mali London ("Little London"), a settlement in Pančevo, Serbia

As a nickname

• Gothenburg, Sweden
• Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Balaklava, Sevastopol, Crimea

Further information

• The Llundainfaich Little London Homepage with a list of Little London locations in England and Wales

References

1. ↑ Richard Colyer (1974). "Welsh Cattle Drovers in the Nineteenth Century - 2". National Library of Wales Journal. XVIII/3.