Contents

Gallery of Littleport

The Littleport Show 2008 NEW LINK

Littleport Village College

Littleport Riots

The Tuesday Market

Christmas Street Fayre 2004

Shirts in Main Street

Click for more about the village sign

Yeomen of Littleport (1300)

Barber's Almanack of Littleport

Looking for Littleport Roots?

Harley-Davidson Motorcycles

Guestbook

The Old Guestbook - READ ONLY

Local Links

We are here (arrowed)

Littleport is located in the eastern part of Great Britain, on the edge of a very flat area known as the fens.

It is 5 miles north of the cathedral city of Ely and 20 miles north of the university city of Cambridge.

It has a growing population of approximately 5500 and currently there is building in progress for about 660 more houses on the western side of the town.

Many of the residents commute every day to near-by larger historic towns like Cambridge, Newmarket or Kings-Lynn. Some catch the train from the town's own railway station to London, this is a journey that takes about 75 minutes.

The surrounding area is agricultural and many people work on the local farms.

We also have a large American population in the town due to the close proximity of the USAF airbases at Mildenhall and Lakenheath.

Schools

We have two primary schools (for children up to 11 years old). Older children usually go by bus to the community collage at Ely, although some go to other secondary schools, the popular ones are Soham (12 miles away) and  Witchford (6 miles).

Shopping

Shopping is mainly along Main Street with an assortment of shops.
We have a bank (Barclays), a Post Office, a chemist, a small supermarket, two newsagent/convenience stores, ironmongers, barber, a lingerie/gift shop, a butchers, a bakers, a cycle shop, jewellery/gift shop, clothing, fishing tackle, ladies hairdressers and others.

A small market is held every Tuesday in the car park of the Crown public house.

Eating

Fast food is well catered for in the town

• an English restaurant
• a tea shop
• two fish and chip shops
• a Chinese take-away
• a kebab house (also makes excellent pizzas)
• 2 Indian restaurants (take out also available)
• a Chinese restaurant (take out also available)
• a pizza resturant
• The sports centre serves food
• the ex-servicemen's club serves food
• the three public houses also serve food

Miscellaneous

The town also has:

• a NHS doctors surgery which is open 6 days a week (a new, bigger surgery has just been built)
• a dentist
• an optician
• alternative therapy is available at the Crown Treatment Centre
• a fire station with a retained crew
• a leisure centre that is open all year round
• we have two garages that sell petrol as well as others that concentrate on repairs to vehicles
• there is a coach company based in the town
• we have two main industrial areas with many small (and some not so small) businesses in them
• a camping and caravan park by the river ( see  www.riversideccp.co.uk )
• a library, which was refurbished and enlarged in 2002
• a boat-yard
• there are a range of builders and plumbers in the town
• a blacksmith
• a chimney sweep
• the telehone exchange is broadband enabled
• plus many other services available..........