Editing Littleport (section)

==History==
With an [[Old English]] name of ''Litelport'', the village was worth 17,000 [[eel]]s a year to the Abbots of [[Isle of Ely|Ely]] in 1086.<ref name=Domesday>{{Cite web |last=Domesday Book |title=Cambridgeshire, Littleport |work=The Domesday Book Online |publisher= domesdaybook.co.uk |date=1999–2010 |url=http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/cambridgeshire2.html#littleport |access-date=19 June 2010}}</ref>

The legendary founder of Littleport was [[King Canute]]. A fisherman gave the king shelter one night, after drunken monks had denied him hospitality. After punishing the monks, he made his host the mayor of a newly founded village.<ref>Beryl Beare, ''England: Myths and Legends'' (Bath, 1999), p. 47. {{ISBN|0752529781}}</ref>

The Littleport Riots of 1816 broke out after war veterans from the [[Battle of Waterloo]] returned home, only to find they could get no work and grain prices had gone up. They took to the streets and smashed shops and buildings until troops were brought in.<ref name=riots>{{Cite web |last=Strawson |title=The Littleport Riots |work=Family website |publisher=Strawson family |url=http://www.btinternet.com/~strawson.online/riots/riot.htm |access-date=19 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011231535/http://www.btinternet.com/~strawson.online/riots/riot.htm |archive-date=11 October 2012}}</ref> St George's church registers were destroyed in the riots.<ref name=VCH>{{Citation |editor-last=Pugh |editor-first=R B |author=T D Atkinson, Ethel M Hampson, E T Long, C A F Meekings, Edward Miller, H B Wells, G M G Woodgate |title=The Victoria History of the Counties of England: ''Cambridge and the isle of Ely'' |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1953 |volume=4 |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=21899 |pages=95–102}}</ref> The remaining registers start from 1754 (marriages), 1756 (burials), and 1783 (baptisms). Some original documents to do with the riots are held in [[Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies]] at the County Record Office, Cambridge.<ref name=archives>{{Cite web |title=County Records Office, Cambridge |publisher=Cambridgeshire County Council |year=2010 |url=http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/visiting/crocambridge.htm |access-date=19 June 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100516031408/http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/visiting/crocambridge.htm |archive-date=16 May 2010 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

In 2003, a [[Harley-Davidson]] statue was unveiled in Littleport to mark the centenary of the motorcycle company. William Harley, father of the company's co-founder [[William S. Harley|William Sylvester Harley]], was born in Victoria Street, Littleport, in 1835 and emigrated to the United States in 1859.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Littleport Harley Davidson statue |url=http://visitely.eastcambs.gov.uk/walking/littleport-trail}}</ref>