Littlehampton is a village in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia, located on the Old Princes Highway.

It is approximately 35 minutes from the Adelaide CBD via the South Eastern Freeway.

[2] Littlehampton was laid out in 1849 by Benjamin Gray, who named it after his native town in Sussex.

By 1890, the village had become a busy industrial centre with a sawmill, brewery and various manufacturers producing jams, sauces, bacon, wattle extract.

The first commercial collection in the world of any pasture legume seed was done by Amos Howard about two kilometres east of Littlehampton.