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New Homes Peterborough – ‘Gateway to the Fens’

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About Peterborough

The city of Peterborough is located in the North East of the English county of Cambridgeshire. Peterborough is known as ‘Gateway to the Fens’ because it is located at the edge of a vast area of beautiful, open farmland known as the Fens. Peterborough lies transversely on the River Nene and currently has an estimated population of around 164,000.

A Brief History of Peterborough

Peterborough city has Saxon beginnings; Peterborough’s famous cathedral was a monastery during Anglo-Saxon times. Once just a small, unimportant town, Peterborough became the region’s industrial capital after the construction of a major rail road just outside of the city centre in the nineteenth century. Peterborough was particularly known for its brick manufacturing.

Modern-day Peterborough

“Modern-day Peterborough is a thriving metropolitan city which continues to expand in a positive way,” according to Vernon Pethard, Managing Director of UK's leading new homes property website: www.newhomesforsale.co.uk

Moreover, Peterborough is blessed with lush grassland, lakes and riverside and because of its natural beauty, Peterborough has frequently been used as a location for feature films and TV programs including the James Bond films, ‘Golden Eye’ and ‘Octopussy’, Dan Brown’s classic ‘The Da Vinci Code’, and the Penelope Cruz starrer, ‘Nine’.

Places of Interest in Peterborough

Peterborough Cathedral: Once a medieval abbey, the 1350 year old Peterborough cathedral boasts, a unique English Gothic entrance, the only original 13th century painted Nave ceiling in England, the burial places of two queens; Mary, Queen of Scots and Katherine of Aragon, an original 12th century watch tower and countless historic artefacts.

Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery: Believed to be haunted, the Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery was built in 1816, and is home to over 200,000 remarkable items of global importance, including one of the world’s best collections of marine fossils, an impressive art collection, a social history collection, a Norman Cross collection of prisoner of war handicrafts, and the original manuscripts of famous poet, John Clare.

Flag Fen Archaeological Park: Discovered in 1982 and spread over 20 acres of beautiful parkland, Peterborough’s Flag Fen Archaeological Park is one of Europe’s best Bronze Age archaeological sites. Flag Fen is home to Britain’s oldest wheel, and an antique wooden track stretching across the Fens. The park offers its visitors fascinating reconstructions, fun hands-on activities and workshops on things like sword finishing, flint knapping and basketry.

Nene Valley Railway: The seven and a half mile long Nene Valley Railway is an operational heritage railway and is home to the highly popular cartoon, ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’. Steam locomotives operate regularly over this railway. ‘Railworld’ is a railway museum situated right beside the Peterborough Nene Valley railway station.

Burghley House: Built by the Sir William Cecil and surrounded by 13 acres of beautiful parkland, Burghley House is a 16th century country house which boasts magnificent rooms, a huge art collection, an intricate Japanese ceramics collection and fine antique furniture.

Nene Park: Spread over three and a half miles along the picturesque valley of River Nene, Nene Park boasts three lakes and a large portion of wildly popular tourist destination, the 500 acre Fairy Meadows country park.

Peterborough’s Notable People

Many famous people are connected to Peterborough. These include; 1st Baron of Burghley, Sir William Cecil, famous poet John Clare, astronomer George Alcock, co-founder of Rolls-Royce Henry Royce, author and actor Sir John Hill, musician Sir Thomas Armstrong, singer and actor Keith Palmer aka Maxim Reality, comedian Ernie Wise and footballer David Bentley.

Places near Peterborough

Many townships and villages are situated near Peterborough. Some of these include: Alwalton, Barnwell, Coates, Elton, Holme, Longthorpe, Newborough, Stamford, Sutton, Thorney and Yaxley.

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