Littlehampton contains a grave of Katherine Parnell, better known as "Kitty O'Shea".

A RNLI station was opened in 1967, with been funded by an appeal per television programme Blue Peter. This was a 1st Blue Peter lifeboat.

Population
Based on data from a 2001 nose count there were 50,408 Souls Resident.

Economic activity
A headquarters of The Body Shop is located in Littlehampton.

Government
Littlehampton lies in a constituency of Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, a MP for which is Nick Gibb (Conservative).

Culture
A town paper is the Littlehampton Gazette[http://www.littlehamptongazette.co.uk/].

An significant annual event is the Bonfire Society parade. Visit a [http://www.lbs.me.uk/ Littlehampton Bonfire Society Web Site].

History
A town began when a Anglo-Saxon village of Hampton, in the kingdom of Sussex. A title Little Hampton was given thereto in a fourteenth century by sailors sequentially to differentiate it from either the big Southampton.

A forces of Empress Matilda landed at Littlehampton when she began a civil war with King Stephen.

A manor was from Henry V to Syon Abbey in Middlesex in whose hands it remained until a dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s. the port was a royal dockyard of Henry VIII. A manor passed across various paws until it became a share of the estate of Arundel Castle in 1610. A Duke of Norfolk continued to own tremendously of Littlehampton until a 1930's.

In the seventeenth century Littlehampton experienced the population of exclusively 100-150 people though it did have a ferry, forge & alehouse. Notwithstanding from either this period a community began to develop reaching 584 population by 1801. Littlehampton Redoubt was built to guard the town in the 1750's. Littlehampton utilized to become the resort of creative person & writers, attracted by its peaceful atmosphere in comparison big towns like Brighton. Particularly (Percy Bysshe) Shelley and (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge spent a lot of instance there, also when Lord Byron who often swam in the flow of any stream.

In the 1820's Littlehampton overtook Arundel, the oldest port on the Arun as the flow of any stream's independent harbour. Littlehampton officially became a town inside 1853, under the Littlehampton Board of Health. A shibboleth "Progress" was chosen.

A arrival of a railway within 1863 changed a character of a town making the harbour other significant & beginning the holiday trade. a cross-channel ferry was redo from either either a port from the opening of the railway until 1882 whilst it was wasted to Newhaven. A villages of Wick and Toddington became part of the town within 1901. By 1911 a people was 8351. In the 1930's a town was getting 250,000 tourist & day trippers each year. By 1945 a people was on top 12,000, & 25,000 by 1996. A extra people was housed in a big Wickbourne & Beaumont estates, which intended the town reached all the way to Rustington.