Peterborough
| Peterborough | |||
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 34 ′ N , 0 ° 15 ′ W | ||
| OS National Grid | TL185998 | ||
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| Residents | 184,500 (as of 2011) | ||
| surface | 343.38 km² (132.58 mi² ) | ||
| Population density: | 537 inhabitants per km² | ||
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| ZIP code section | PE1-8 | ||
| prefix | 01733 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | East of England | ||
| Shire county | Cambridgeshire | ||
| Unitary authority | City of Peterborough | ||
| ONS code | 00YES | ||
| Website: www.peterborough.gov.uk | |||
Peterborough [ ˈpiːtəbɹə ] is a town of 184,500 people in Cambridgeshire in eastern England . Together with the surrounding towns, it forms the City of Peterborough . The Peterborough Cathedral is considered one of the most important medieval cathedrals in Britain .
administration
The city was originally part of Northamptonshire and was in the specially created region of the Soke of Peterborough . The settlements spread to Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire because of industrial growth . In 1889, the Soke became an administrative county , but after a short time it was considered too small to properly take on administrative tasks. Thus, it was first merged with Huntingdonshire in 1965, creating the county of Huntingdon and Peterborough . In 1974 it became the City of Peterborough along with the surrounding districts and was part of Cambridgeshire. In 1998 the City of Peterborough became an administratively independent of Cambridgeshire City ( Unitary Authority ).
history
Peterborough is the eponymous site of the Middle Neolithic Peterborough Ware , which was excavated here in 1910 by GW Abbott.
The city was founded as Durobrivae in 43 AD by the Romans who set up an army camp here .
Peterborough (formerly Burgh , Burgus sancti Petri ) can already be traced under its former Saxon name Medehamstede before 655, when the monk Saxulf built a monastery on the land that Penda , the king of Mercia had given him. The name Burgh appears for the first time between 992 and 1005, after Abbot Kenulf built a wall around the monastery. However, the city is not perceived as a real settlement until the 12th century. The citizens received their town charter from "Abbot Robert", who is believed to be identical to Robert von Sutton .
The dean and the cathedral chapter , who succeeded the abbot as lord of the land, appointed a bailiff , the bailiff and other officers were determined by choice, in 1874 the management was placed entirely under the leadership of a mayor, six elders and 18 councilors. A prison had already been built in the 13th century under the responsibility of the monastery master. 1576 was by Bishop dominion over Nassaburgh to Scamble Queen Elizabeth I sold. This passed the land on to Lord Burghley. This established the dynasty of the Marquesses of Exeter .
The art of weaving and flax spinning has been documented in Peterborough since the 14th century. Four markets were held annually. Two of them still take place in July and October.
In the 19th century, a flourishing building materials industry established itself on the clay soil south of the city . The local brick factories mainly produced for the booming metropolis of London . The bricks were transported to London by the Great Northern Railway in freight trains from specially constructed flat cars - a lucrative business for the Great Northern Railway and one of the reasons for the early (and still current) central connection of the city and its surroundings to rail traffic .
Peterborough today
As a New Town since 1968, Peterborough's population was originally intended to double. From 1971 to 1991, however, the population only grew by 45.4%. Peterborough is conveniently connected to the UK transport network. There are good infrastructural facilities thanks to the road construction as well as the connection with express trains to the metropolis of London and Birmingham and the overland connection with Yorkshire and the north of England and Scotland .
The city's population is 159,700 (as of 2005), while the Greater Peterborough catchment area includes around 500,000 people.
The first wife of King Henry VIII , Catherine of Aragon , is buried in Peterborough Cathedral. City partnerships exist with Alcalá de Henares ( Spain , since 1986), the city in which Katharina was born. Further partnerships exist with Bourges in France (since 1957), Forlì in Italy , Viersen in Germany (both since 1981) and Vinnytsia in Ukraine (since 1991).
Attractions
- Burghley House
- Peterborough Cathedral
- Longthorpe Tower
- Flag Fen Open Air Museum
- Peakirk Waterfowl Gardens Trust
- Nene Valley Railway
- Queensgate Shopping Center
- Guildhall 1671
Others
- Peterborough is the location of a transmitter for VHF and TV. The 163 meter high transmission mast of this system collapsed after a fire on October 30, 2004.
Sports
The Peterborough Panthers speedway team competes in the British Professional Premier League.
sons and daughters of the town
- Blanca of England (1392–1409), princess
- Don Lusher (1923-2006), jazz musician
- Robert Neild (1924–2018), economist
- Barry Forgie (* 1939), trombonist, arranger, big band leader
- Adrian Lyne (* 1941), film director
- Colin Hodgkinson (* 1945), musician
- Paul Brannen (* 1962), politician
- Michael Mulhall (born 1962), Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Kingston
- Andy Bell (* 1964), musician and singer in the band Erasure
- Matthew Oakley (born 1977), soccer player
- Andrew Britton (1981-2008), novelist
- David Bentley (* 1984), football player
- Luke Ferrara (born 1993), ice hockey player
See also
literature
- OS Nock: Railways at their zenith 1905-1919. (Original title: Railways in the Years of Pre Eminence , translated by Wolfgang Hege and J. Quellmalz), Orell Füssli, Zurich 1977, ISBN 3-280-00892-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Town Twinning. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
- ↑ http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/peterborough/index.php
- ↑ Peterborough transmitter mast. In: Structurae
