Littleport, Main Street c.1955
Photo ref:
L366010
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Littleport is distinguished as being the last place on which the Bishop of Ely exercised his temporal powers. In 1816, local farm workers, enraged at being made unemployed as a result of the enclosure of common land, marched to Ely and caused a disturbance. The Bishop called in the army, and appointed judges to make an example of the rioters. Five were hanged, and many others were transported.
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