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Litlington is a village and civil parish in the East of England region and the county Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. The village lies approximately southwest of Cambridge and northwest of Royston. ==History== The parish of Litlington covers in a thin north-south rectangular shape. Its southern border runs along the county border with Hertfordshire on the Icknield Way that now follows the A505. Its northern border with Abington Pigotts follows a stream, and its western and eastern boundary with Steeple Morden and Bassingbourn follow field boundaries. The ancient track Ashwell Street runs through the parish just south of the village, and the parish has been occupied continuously for over 2000 years. A Roman villa probably dating from the 2nd century AD and containing 30 rooms was discovered just west of the village in 1829 and was excavated in 1881 and 1913.〔 Prior to the building of the Royston bypass, traffic would frequently go through Litlington to avoid Royston itself. This led to such a volume of traffic that in 1971 the village became the first in Cambridgeshire to introduce a one-way system through the village.〔 The village was referenced as ''Litlingetona'' in ''ca.'' 1080, appearing in the Domesday Book as ''Lidlingtone'' and ''Lidlintone'', and in its current form as early as 1242.〔E. Ekwall, ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names''; 4th ed. Oxford University Press, 1960; p. 300〕 The name "Litlington" means "farmstead of the family or followers of a man called Lytel".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Dictionary of British Place-Names )〕 Sir William de Notton, a leading politician and judge who died in 1365 held the manor of Litlington in the mid-fourteenth century. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Litlington, Cambridgeshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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