A-Z of Peterborough: Places-People-History

by June And Vernon Bull

Peterborough grew up around its cathedral, originally founded as an Anglo-Saxon monastery, but it was only in the nineteenth century that this city on the edge of the Fens started to grow to its present size as one of the largest cities in the east of England. The arrival of the railways and development of new industries in the early nineteenth century brought large numbers of people to Peterborough, and the expansion continued with its designation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1398115274
• ISBN13: 9781398115279
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages