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The Guildhall, Peterborough, Northamptonshire

Peterborough

Peterborough is a cathedral city in Northamptonshire. The city stands on the banks of the River Nene, which enters the North Sea some 30 miles to the north-east. Peterborough is the heart of the Soke of Peterborough, the north-easternmost part of Northamptonshire.

Peterborough is a New Town and its old town centre has been greatly redeveloped and is surrounded but a great number of twentieth century residential neighbourhoods, many entirely replacing older villages whose names they have adopted and which have spread south across the River Nene into Huntingdonshire. The town has thus served to take London overspill and is a major working town. (Read more)