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Littleport
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Littleport is located in Cambridgeshire
Littleport
Littleport
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
District
  • East Cambridgeshire
Shire county
Region
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
UK Parliament
  • North East Cambridgeshire
List of places
UK
England
Cambridgeshire
52°27′24″N 0°18′17″E / 52.4568°N 0.3046°E / 52.4568; 0.3046

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
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

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