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Little Shelford is a village located to the south of Cambridge, in the county of Cambridgeshire, in eastern England. The River Granta lies between it and the larger village of Great Shelford, and both are served by Shelford railway station, which is on the West Anglia Main Line from Cambridge to London Liverpool Street. The village has one pub, The Navigator, on the High Street.

Little Shelford

The church
Little Shelford
Location within Cambridgeshire
Population840 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceTL451517
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCambridge
Postcode districtCB22
Dialling code01223
PoliceCambridgeshire
FireCambridgeshire
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament
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List of places
UK
England
Cambridgeshire
52.14267°N 0.1191°E / 52.14267; 0.1191

The parish is mostly low-lying. It is bounded on the west by the M11 motorway and by field boundaries, and on the east by the River Cam or Granta. The highest point of the parish is Clunch Pit Hill, 31 m (TL447499).


Church and notable families


The Church of All Saints, Little Shelford is the village's Church of England parish church. The church is a Grade II* listed building, and dates from the 12th century.[2]

Gregory Wale's monument
Gregory Wale's monument

Three tablets commemorate General Sir Charles Wale, who survived many battles to die at Little Shelford in 1848; his son, who fell at the Siege of Lucknow; and his eight grandsons and great-grandsons who died in World War I. Other notable members of the Wale family associated with Little Shelford include Thomas Wale, Gregory Wale and Henry Charles Wale. A monument to Gregory Wale can be seen on St Margaret's Mount to the west of the village.


Locality


The de Freville manor house survives. One of many hidden ways leads past the manor and the farm where the river slips through a wood and kingfishers streak over an ancient mill pool.

The children's writer Philippa Pearce renamed the village "Little Barley", with Great Shelford becoming "Great Barley", the River Cam, which flows through the area, becoming the "River Say", and Cambridge being renamed "Castleford" and deprived of its university. These names are used in a number of her books, most famously Minnow on the Say (1955) and Tom's Midnight Garden (1958).


References


  1. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  2. "CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS". historicengland.org.uk/listing. Historic England. Retrieved 4 January 2017.



На других языках


- [en] Little Shelford

[ru] Литл-Шелфорд

Литл-Шелфорд (англ. Little Shelford, Малый Шелфорд) — деревня к югу от Кембриджа, в Кембриджшире, в восточной Англии. Река Гранта протекает между ней и более крупной деревней Грейт-Шелфорд (англ. Great Shelford). Обе деревни обслуживаются железнодорожной станцией Шелфорд, которая лежит на пути ведущем из Кембриджа в Лондон на вокзал Ливерпуль-стрит. В деревне есть один паб, The Navigator, расположенный на Хай-стрит.



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