Peterborough, Northamptonshire

Kearsley's Traveller's entertaining Guide through Great Britain (1801)

PETERBOROUGH Northamptonshire is the see of a bishop seated on the river Nene over which is a bridge It is not a large place for it has but one paris church besides the cathedral, The market place is spacious and the streets are regular. It has a trade in corn coal and timber. The cathedral was formerly a monastery, is a majestic structure, full of curious work is a large1 choir. It was founded in 655, to which the abbot of Croyland and his monks flying for protection in the year 870, they were overtaken and murdered in a court of this monastery called the monks' churchyard, because they were all there buried. To this day is to be seen the tombstone with their effigies which was erected over their common grave. It was converted into a bishop's see by Henry VIII. Here are the monuments of queen Catharine wife of Henry VIII and of Mary the unfortunate queen of Scots. One mile on the ; Thorpe hall T O Hunter esq. Two miles further is Miltonhouse earl Fitzwilliam.

Inns : Angel, Talbot