Litlington, Cambridgeshire

[5] Sir William de Notton, a leading politician and judge who died in 1365 held the manor of Litlington in the mid-fourteenth century.The parish church of St Catherine consists of a chancel with vestry, aisled and clerestoried nave with south porch and west tower.[3] St. Catherine's Church tower was used as a positioning focus for P47s and P51s landing at the nearby airfield home of the United States Army Air Force 355th Fighter Group in World War Two.It was named after a local legend that an arrow fired by Robin Hood at the village's chalkpit had grown into a thorn tree.The Horse and Groom, in the south west corner of the parish, straddling the border with Steeple Morden, was open in the late 18th century to serve travellers on the turnpike.
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