Whittlesey

Whittlesey is a small market town and civil parish in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England, set on the low-lying, reclaimed fenlands beside the River Nene. The flat, fertile landscape has long shaped the local economy and identity: arable farming, historic peat extraction and brickmaking have been important, while today many residents also commute to nearby centres such as Peterborough and March.

It has a strong sense of local history and community - a medieval market tradition, a parish church at its heart and a local museum reflect that heritage - and the town is famed for its quirky annual Straw Bear festival, a revived folk custom that draws visitors in winter. The surrounding fens are rich in archaeology and landscape history, with Bronze Age wetland sites like Flag Fen illustrating how people have adapted to and worked the marshes for millennia.