Littlestone-on-Sea

infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Littlestone
latitude= 50.98075
longitude= 0.96415
static_

static_image_caption=Littlestone beach
civil_parish= New Romney
shire_district= Shepway
shire_county= Kent
region= South East England
constituency_westminster= Folkestone and Hythe
post_town= TONBRIDGE
postcode_area= TN
postcode_district=TN28
dial_code= 01797
os_grid_reference= TR066249

Littlestone-on-Sea is a small coastal village close to New Romney. Started in the 1880's by Sir Robert Perks, as a resort for the gentry, at the point of the local lifeboat station. [ [http://www.villagenet.co.uk/dr-syn/villages/littlestone.php Littlestone Kent] www.villagenet.co.uk] At low tide a WWII 'Mulberry Harbour' is visible and along the coast there is a P.L.U.T.O. or Pipe Line Under The Ocean, formerly used to carry petrol across to France during the D-Day landings.

The First Men in the Moon

Littlestone is the location of Mr Bedford's landing in the sphere in H.G. Wells book The First Men in the Moon. Mr Bedford leaves the sphere on the beach and enters a hotel. A local boy called Thomas Simmons (the name of an old school friend of Wells) who witnessed Mr Bedford’s arrival later enters and takes off in the sphere and is never seen again!

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