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Littlehampton lies within the parliamentary constituency of Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, the Member of Parliament for which is Conservative Nick Gibb.
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Bognor Regis lies within the constituency of Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, the MP for which is Nick Gibb ( Conservative ).
In its western half, the southern boundary of the park lies up to inland from the south coast ; it thus excludes the major coastal towns and cities of Southampton, Portsmouth, Chichester, Bognor Regis and Littlehampton.
Littlehampton and constituency
Between 1983 and 1997, the town of Arundel had been part of the eponymous Arundel constituency, which also included the towns of Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, and the area of the South Downs had been part of the Horsham constituency.
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The modified Bognor Regis and Littlehampton constituency is created with the following electoral wards:
Prior to 1974, Bognor Regis was part of the Chichester constituency, while Littlehampton was part of the Arundel and Shoreham constituency.
Littlehampton and Bognor
Other nearby towns include Worthing east southeast, Littlehampton to the south and Bognor Regis to the southwest.
Southern operates passenger services from London Bridge and London Victoria to Beckenham Junction, Epsom Downs, East Grinstead, Uckfield, Caterham, Tattenham Corner, Horsham, Littlehampton, Bognor Regis, Southampton, Portsmouth, Brighton, Eastbourne and Ore.
Trains services from Littlehampton railway station are provided by Southern and occasionally First Great Western, with direct services to Brighton, London Victoria, Gatwick Airport, East Croydon, Bognor Regis, Chichester, Portsmouth and Southampton.
He is the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton.
Gibb was selected to stand as the Conservative candidate for the newly created West Sussex seat of Bognor Regis and Littlehampton at the 1997 General Election.
The LB & SCR supplied the most direct routes from London to the South Coast seaside resorts of Brighton, Eastbourne, Worthing, Littlehampton and Bognor Regis, and to the ports of Newhaven and Shoreham-by-Sea.
Branches were also built from the West Sussex coast line to the village of Littlehampton in 1863 ( to connect to a newly established cross-channel ferry service ), to Bognor Regis in 1864, and to Hayling Island in 1867.
The railway had motive power depots at Battersea Park, Brighton, Bognor, Coulsdon, Croydon, Eastbourne, Epsom, Fratton ( joint ) Horsham, Littlehampton, Midhurst, New Cross, Newhaven, St Leonards, Three Bridges and Tunbridge Wells.
The A259 runs east from Emsworth in Hampshire, into West Sussex via Chichester, Bognor Regis, Littlehampton, Ferring, Worthing, Lancing, Shoreham-by-Sea, Portslade And East Sussex via Hove, Brighton, Peacehaven, Newhaven, Seaford, Eastbourne, Pevensey, Bexhill, Hastings and Rye.
* Nick Gibb, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton.
The West Coastway Line is a railway line in England, along the south coast of West Sussex and Hampshire, between Brighton and Southampton, plus the short branches to Littlehampton and Bognor Regis.
The line was electrified ( 750v DC third rail ) by the Southern Railway during the inter war years in two stages, stage one being Brighton to West Worthing, Stage two being from West Worthing to Havant ( where it joined up with the electrified Portsmouth Direct Line ), including the Littlehampton and Bognor branches.
In the meanwhile the LBSCR opened the Littlehampton branch from Ford Junction on: 17 August 1863 and the Bognor Regis branch from Barnham Junction 1 June 1864.
As the two week Arundel Festival was drawing to a close over the weekend, Southern maintained a service into the station from the West Coastway Line from Bognor Regis via Barnham and Ford, and a reversal at Littlehampton.
Up to the early 1980s, express services to Littlehampton and Bognor Regis were routed along this line and called at Sutton, Dorking, Horsham and stations to the south coast along the Arun Valley Line & West Coastway Line.
It includes the towns of Bognor Regis and Littlehampton.
Littlehampton and Regis
Platform 3 Used for westbound services to Littlehampton, Southampton Central and Bristol Temple Meads, Portsmouth, Chichester, Bognor Regis and Eastleigh.
The A259 runs through the north of the village, westward to Littlehampton, Bognor Regis and Chichester, and east to Worthing and Brighton.
Littlehampton and for
Littlehampton started as a fishing port but now is a thriving port for thousands of leisure craft which visit from all over the UK and Europe.
Littlehampton is the setting for an important episode in British author Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel Never Let Me Go.
Littlehampton was the backdrop for Swanage for the first episode of series 2 of the comedy drama series, The Inbetweeners, with filming taking place on the promenade and River Arun.
The Littlehampton Miniature Railway runs for 800 yards from Norfolk Gardens site to Mewsbrook Park.
The group's function was to be a Christian worship band for a youth outreach event called " Cutting Edge ", instigated by the Arun Community Church in Littlehampton, West Sussex.
The railway was responsible for carrying the bulk of the stores and munitions delivered to the British troops on the continent, principally through its ports of Newhaven and ( to a lesser degree ) Littlehampton.
* 2 to Littlehampton via Worthing, portion for Eastbourne or Hastings detached at Haywards Heath
A battery was planned for the east bank of the Arun at Littlehampton in about 1587, but there is no record of it having been erected and no trace of it has been discovered.
Historian John Goodwin comments that " the War Office were worried that capture of the ports of Littlehampton and Shoreham would enable the enemy to use the quays for the supply and reinforcement of troops landed to attack Portsmouth form the rear, prior to a march on London.
The Committee on Coast Defences Report of 1873 found that Littlehampton Fort was inadequate as it only had smooth bore guns and it was weakly constructed with open bastions and no casemates for the guns and no iron-cladding.
It holds an annual carnival and fete in August and at Christmas has a village carol concert which is free for local residents and features local school children accompanied by the Littlehampton Concert Band.
* Nick Gibb ( briefly ), Conservative Schools Minister 2010-current, and MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton since 1997
After a performance of Love Changes Everything at a choral society concert in Littlehampton, his local MP Howard Flight, who was in the audience, arranged for him to have a preliminary audition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
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Littlehampton has one secondary school, The Littlehampton Academy, which opened in 2009, replacing the Littlehampton Community School.
Littlehampton is connected to the A27 south coast trunk road by the A284, which also provides the main north-south route out of the town and links to the A29 and A24.
Littlehampton's port is based around the River Arun and a small stretch of sea 5 miles out to sea and 6 miles wide which is locally known as the " Littlehampton Channel ".
An annual event is the bonfire procession, bonfire and firework display which are organised by the Littlehampton Bonfire Society.
In the town centre of Littlehampton is the Head Quarters of the Littlehampton Gazette, which is Littlehampton's local newspaper.
Littlehampton has a small fire station near the town centre, which maintains two water-tender ladders and a water carrier.
Although in Rustington ( Littlehampton ) there is the Zachery Merton Community Hospital, which lacks an A & E Department but does have a Minor Injuries department, 31 beds and other clinics.
Littlehampton and its harbour were guarded from naval attack by Littlehampton Redoubt on the western bank at the mouth of the river, completed in 1854, which is now screened from the open sea by Climping sand dunes.
The fort design was similar to that of Littlehampton Fort, which had been built in 1854.
The company, which has its headquarters in Littlehampton, West Sussex, England, was founded in 1976 by Anita Roddick and is now part of the L ' Oréal corporate group.
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