Little Hucklow and view towards Hucklow Edge

Little Hucklow village

Little Hucklow

Across the valley from Great Hucklow is Little Hucklow, a small limestone village.  Its crescent shape nestles into the hillside.

In the village centre is a small Primitive Methodist Sunday School, built in 1854 by public subscription. It is now privately owned. The last remaining pub in the village, the historic Old Bulls Head, closed in 2005.

Little Hucklow no longer has its own Wakes Week but the village celebrates November 5th with a bonfire and fireworks.  Last year (2005) Great Hucklow Community Spirit gave us a Christmas tree. We sang carols round the tree with the support of Tideswell Band. We all, including many children, enjoyed a village summer party this year.

Lead mining in earlier centuries has left its mark on the village. Until the late nineteenth century most of the inhabitants worked in lead mining, agriculture and weaving. Many owned or had shares in small mines and supplemented their incomes from small holdings and by taking in weaving from local mills. Never prosperous, the villagers became desperate when the lead industry failed in the 1870s and 1880s.  Many families left the village to look for work in the factories of Sheffield and Manchester leaving derelict mine shafts and houses as scars of their desolation. Those who remained were saved by the later development of quarrying in the area.

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