Littleport facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Littleport |
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St George's Church |
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Area | 28.46 sq mi (73.7 km2) |
Population | 8,738 (2011) |
• Density | 307/sq mi (119/km2) |
OS grid reference | TL568868 |
• London | 67.4 mi (108.5 km) S |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | ELY |
Postcode district | CB6 |
Dialling code | 01353 |
Police | Cambridgeshire |
Fire | Cambridgeshire |
Ambulance | East of England |
EU Parliament | East of England |
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Littleport is a large village in East Cambridgeshire, in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 6 miles (10 km) north-east of Ely and 6 miles (10 km) south-east of Welney, on the Bedford Level South section of the River Great Ouse, close to Burnt Fen and Mare Fen. There are two primary schools, Millfield Primary and Littleport Community, and a secondary, Littleport and East Cambridgeshire Academy. The Littleport riots of 1816 influenced the passage of the Vagrancy Act 1824.
Economy
Thomas Peacock, who founded the gentlemen's tailoring chain Hope Brothers, was born in Littleport in 1829. Peacock had several shops in London starting from one in Ludgate Hill. The first three-storey Hope Brothers shirt and collar-making factory was opened in the village in 1881 in White Hart Lane. By 1891 it was employing 300–400 women and children. It had a social club and library. For a period in the 1940s and 1950s, Hope Brothers also manufactured the England football kit. The factory was later taken over by Burberry.
From 1979 to 1983, the firm of Jim Burns guitars was based in Padnal Road in Littleport. It produced guitars such as the Steer, popularized by Billy Bragg.
Demography
Littleport is 28.46 square miles (73.7 km2) in size, making it the largest village in East Cambridgeshire by area. The city of Ely itself has the highest East Cambridgeshire population with Soham second and Littleport third.
Historical population of Littleport | |||||||||||
Year | 1801 | 1811 | 1821 | 1831 | 1841 | 1851 | 1861 | 1871 | 1881 | 1891 | 1901 |
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Population | 1602 | 1847 | 2364 | 2644 | 3365 | 3832 | 3733 | 3903 | 3571 | 4201 | 4221 |
Year | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1941 | 1951 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 |
Population | 4527 | 4526 | 4779 | 5182 | 5291 | 5293 | 5673 | 6282 | 7521 | 8738 | |
Census: 1801–2001 2011 |
Notable people
- Peter Ackroyd (1917–2005), Biblical scholar, died in a nursing home here.
- William Harley emigrated to the United States, where his son William Sylvester Harley went into partnership to establish the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Company
- Fred Hockley (1923–1945), World War II fighter pilot
- James Nightall (1922–1944), posthumously awarded the George Cross for gallantry shown in the Soham rail disaster in 1944
- Marty Scurll, professional wrestler. BOLA 2016 winner and multiple times Progress Wrestling Champion
- Victor Watson (born 1936), children's writer and academic, born in Littleport
- Thomas Peacock (born 1829 in Littleport, died 1895) set up the Gentlemen's Tailoring chain Hope Brothers and built a shirt and collar factory in Littleport in 1881.
- Roger Law (born 1941 in Littleport), is a British caricaturist, ceramist and one half of Luck and Flaw (with Peter Fluck), creators of the popular satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image.
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See also
In Spanish: Littleport para niños