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Moving to Peterborough?

The Fen country is said to be lovable only to those who have grown up there. Peterborough, on the western edge, is proof that that is nonsense. The cathedral city has been around in some shape or form since at least 10,000 BC. Flag Fen, just outside the city, is proof of that. Most probably a religious site, it comprises over 100,000 timbers laid out in five long rows connecting Whittlesey Island to Peterborough, with an island in the middle that was likely used for ceremonies. There are also several wooden roundhouses preserved by the unique marshland, whose anaerobic conditions stopped decay. Votive offerings have been found in the waters around the site.

The Romans established a garrison at Durobrivae to the west of the city and a fort at Longthorpe; this was also an important centre of ceramic production under Roman rule. It next became part of the Saxon kingdom of Mercia, taking its name from the monastery of Medeshamstede which was founded by Abbot Sexwulf in the seventh century. The monastery was destroyed by Vikings in the ninth century: in the tenth, the Benedictines rebuilt it, Abbot Kenulf built a defensive wall around the newly-named abbey and the town’s name changed to Burgh. After the Norman Conquest the monks kept records of events in the Peterborough Chronicle: this is the only extant documentation of the period and is now held by the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

The Abbey was rebuilt in the twelfth century and consecrated as a cathedral. It is one of the most stunning examples of Norman and medieval architecture in Britain, renowned especially for its Early English Gothic West Front, which has three enormous arches and is quite overwhelming as you enter the cathedral close. Inside, the decorated wooden ceiling dates to 1250, one of only four in Europe. The cathedral was ransacked by the Roundheads during the Civil War, when soldiers destroyed the Lady Chapel, chapter house, cloister, high altar and choir stalls, as well as medieval decoration and records.

With the decline of the power of the Catholic Church, Peterborough was open to the next great development, the Industrial Revolution. Vast local clay deposit enabled brick making on an unprecedented scale; coupled with the construction of the Great Northern Railway in the 1840s, this enabled the city to become the UK’s premier brick producer. In 1967 Peterborough was designated a New Town and planners moved accordingly: the population of the city increased by 45% in just six years, with an according concrete explosion outside the city centre. Nonetheless, this remains one of the prettiest English cities to visit, a fact that has been helped by its designation as an environment city in 1994.

As well as the aforementioned attractions, head to the magnificent seventeenth century Guildhall, which is supported by columns to provide an open ground floor for the butter and poultry markets which used to be held there. The Victorian park has formal gardens, a bowling green, an aviary, tennis courts and a pitch and putt course. The Art Deco Lido opened in 1936 and is one of the few surviving lidos of this type. Peterborough Art Gallery and Museum has a wide range of antiquities, from Roman pots to a collection of marine fossil remains from the Jurassic period of international importance; as well as the manuscripts of John Clare, the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet as he was commonly known in his own time, and the Norman Cross collection of items made by French prisoners of war. These prisoners were kept at Norman Cross on the outskirts of Peterborough from 1797 to 1814, in what is believed to be the world's first purpose built prisoner of war camp. Finally, don’t miss Burghley House a few miles to the north. Built for William Cecil in 1558, it is a glorious wedding cake of a mansion, with stunning gardens laid out by Capability Brown.