Whittlesford

Whittlesford

infobox UK place

country = England
latitude=52.11338
longitude= 0.15119
official_name= Whittlesford
population =
dwellings =
shire_district= South Cambridgeshire
shire_county = Cambridgeshire
region= East of England

constituency_westminster= South Cambridgeshire
post_town= Cambridge
postcode_area= CB
postcode_district= CB22
dial_code= 01223
os_grid_reference= TL474483

Whittlesford is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, and also an old hundred.

Transport

Whittlesford Parkway railway station serves the village.

port and Recreation

Whittlesford has a King George's Field in memorial to King George V

Notable Architecture

A late 12th or early 13th-century Sheela na Gig can be observed on a high window arch of the Church of St Mary and St Michael in Whittlesford, accompanied by an ithyphallic male figure. [http://www.sheelanagig.org/index.htm#http://www.sheelanagig.org/SheelaWhittlesford.htm]

History

Roger Ascham, the tutor of Elizabeth I, lived in Whittlesford, and a road in the village is named after him.


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