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Peterborough

Peterborough is a cathedral city and Unitary Authority in the East of England. For ceremonial purposes it is in the county of Cambridgeshire. Peterborough Town Hall is located 73.7 miles (118.6 km) north from the centre of London at Charing Cross. The city is situated on the River Nene which flows into the North Sea approximately 30 miles to the north-east. The local topography is notoriously flat and low-lying, and in some places lies below sea-level. The area known as the Fens falls to the east of Peterborough. more...

National name: Peterborough
Region :
East of England
Area:
343 .38 sq.km
Ethnicity :
89.7% White, 7.0% S.Asian, 1.2% Afro-Carib.
MPs :
Stewart Jackson, Malcolm Moss, Shailesh Vara

History of Peterborough

The Romans first established the fort of Durobrivae in the vicinity around 43 AD which later grew into the town. Peterborough (Burgh, Burgus sancti Petri) is proved by its original name Medeshampstede to have been a Saxon village before 655 when Saxulf, a monk, founded the monastery on land granted to him for that purpose by Penda, king of Mercia. Its name was altered to Burgh between 992 and 1005 after Abbot Kenulf had made a wall round the minister, but the town does not appear to have been a borough until the 12th century. The burgesses received their first charter from "Abbot Robert" - probably Robert of Sutton (1262-1273). more...

Facts for Travellers

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Population inPeterborough

Peterborough's population doubled every 2 decades before World War I, thanks to the lumber economy and manufacturing and to the 1904 annexation of Ashburnham (pop 2000e) as the city grew from 4611 (1871c) to 18 360 (1911c). The modest growth since then has been more rapid than elsewhere in eastern Ontario (except Ottawa) because of manufacturing expansion through the 1960s and the more recent opportunities in education, tourism and commerce. The city's unique quality is its demographic averageness - by religion, occupation and ethnicity - making it a bellwether riding provincially and federally and a favourite site for consumer market testing. This has changed somewhat since 1990 as average family income has declined below provincial and national averages and the proportion of the population over the age of 60 is higher. However, the diversity of the workforce remains.

Also Read: Transportation of Peterboorough | Sports in Peterborough | Districts of Peterborough | Demographics of Peterborough | Government and Politics of Peterbotough | Cultural Life of Peterborough

All Saints, Camden Town is a church in the Camden Town area of London, England. It was built for the Church of England, but it is now a Greek Orthodox church and is known as The Greek Orthodox Church of All Saints. Camden Town was developed from the 1790s onwards in the then largely rural parish [...]
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