Whittlesford
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Map sources for Whittlesford at grid reference TL474483
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Whittlesford is not only a village in Cambridgeshire, but is also an old hundred.
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[edit] Transport
Whittlesford railway station serves the village
[edit] Sport and Recreation
Whittlesford has a King George's Field in memorial to King George V
[edit] 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.[1]
[edit] History
Roger Ascham, the tutor of Elizabeth I, lived in Whittlesford, and a road in the village is named after him.