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Littleport is the largest village in East Cambridgeshire,〔Confirmed by the assistant clerk to the Littleport ''parish council'' who reiterated that towns have a town council; villages have a parish council〕 England, approximately north of Ely and south-east of Welney. It lies on the Bedford Level South section of the River Great Ouse, close to Burnt Fen and Mare Fen. There are two primary schools in the village; Millfield Primary and Littleport Community school. The Littleport riots of 1816 were a factor in Parliament passing the Vagrancy Act of 1824. == History == With an Old English name of ''Litelport'', the village was worth 17,000 Eels to the Abbot's of Ely in 1086. The legendary founder of Littleport was King Canute. A fisherman gave the king shelter one night, after drunken monks had denied hospitality. Following his punishment of the monastics, the king made his host the mayor of a newly founded village.〔Beare, Beryl ''England: Myths and Legends'' Bath 1999 p.47 ISBN 0752529781〕 Littleport was the site of the Littleport Riots of 1816. War-weary veterans from the Battle of Waterloo had returned home, only to find that they could not get any work, and that the grain prices had gone up. They took to the streets and smashed shops and other buildings until troops came to put an end to the riots. St George's church registers were destroyed during the riots. The remaining registers start from 1754 (marriages), 1756 (burials), and 1783 (baptisms). Some original historical documents relating to the riots are held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at the County Record Office Cambridge. In 2003, a Harley-Davidson statue was unveiled in Littleport to commemorate the centenary of the famous motorcycle company. William Harley, the father of the company's co-founder William Sylvester Harley, had been born in Victoria Street, Littleport, in 1835, before emigrating to the USA in 1859. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Littleport, Cambridgeshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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