page_title: Whittlesey
section_title: Culture and community
hierarchical_section_title: Whittlesey / Culture and community
caption_attribution_description: English: The George Hotel, Whittlesey, decorated for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in June 2012
context_page_description: Whittlesey is an English town 6 miles east of Peterborough in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire. Its population of 16,058 at the 2011 Census includes the neighbouring villages of Coates, Eastrea, Pondersbridge and Turves.
context_section_description: The Whittlesey Summer Festival, held annually in September, takes over much of the town centre. Attractions in recent years have included a classic car display, an Italian food stall, fairground rides, a steam engine, and in 2009, a flying display by a Hawker Hurricane of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. An art competition for students of Sir Harry Smith Community College also runs during the festival, with entries displayed throughout the day at the Whittlesey Christian Church. At the 2009 festival people of Whittlesey raised £10,000 for bushfire victims in Whittlesea, Melbourne.
  From 2011 to 2015 there was a planning battle between the rival supermarket chains Tesco and Sainsbury's, which competed to build on neighbouring sites in Eastrea Road. Dubbed "Supermarket Gate" by the local press, the dispute was eventually resolved when Sainsbury's won approval in June 2015 for its scheme for a supermarket, a business park and a country park. Plans for over 400 houses on an adjacent site, construction of which began in late 2014, generated controversy when approved, because of concerns about additional traffic being generated on the A605.
  Close to the King's Dyke brickworks are three 80-metre wind turbines, the largest on-shore turbines in England, which power the McCains chips plant.
  Whittlesey Museum, in the Old Town Hall, has collections on the natural and cultural heritage of Whittlesey and the surrounding area.
caption: The 18th-century George Hotel (now a Wetherspoons pub) decorated for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in June 2012
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