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A-Z guide to archive material relating to Peterborough

This A-Z Guide seeks to summarise the main archive resources relating to Peterborough. It aims to give some background information about the material and an indication of where the records are held.

This guide will be continually updated. If you have information on any archive material relating to Peterborough not included here, please contact Peterborough Archives Service. 

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 

A

• Aerial Photographs
• Army
• Assize Courts
• Associations

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B

• Baptist Churches
• Board of Guardians see Poor Law Union Records
• Brick Companies
• British Electric Authority
• Burial Boards
• Businesses

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C

• Cavell, Edith
• Cambridgeshire County Council
• Cecil Family, Marquesses of Exeter
• Census Returns
• Charities
• Charity Commission
• Charters
• Church Commissioners
• Civil Registration
• Clare, John
• Commons Commissioners
• Coroners
• County Courts

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D

• Diocesan records (Church of England)
• District Councils
• Drainage

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E

• Ecclesiastical Census
• Electoral Registers
• Enclosure see Inclosure
• Estate papers see Family and Estate Collections

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F

• Family and Estate Collections
• Feoffees see Peterborough Almshouse Trust
• Wentworth-Fitzwiliam Family of Milton
• Fletton Infant Welfare Association

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G

• Gilbert Collection

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H

• Hearth Tax
• Heraldry and Heraldic Visitations
• Hospitals and Health Authorities
• Hundred Rolls
• Huntingdon and Peterborough District Council
• Huntly Collection

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I

• Immigrants
• Inclosures
• Inter-Faiths Council

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J

• Jewish records

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K

• No records

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L

• Labour Party (Peterborough Division)
• Land Tax Assessments
• Land Values Duty
• Lay Subsidies
• Libraries
• Local Government

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M

• Manors
• Maps
• Medical Officers of Health
• Mellows, William Thomas Collection
• Memoirs
• Methodist Churches
• Militia

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N

• National Health Service Executive Councils
• Nene River
• Nene Valley Railway
• Newspapers
• Non-Conformist Churches
• Norman Cross Prisoner of War Camp

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O

• No records

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P

• Parishes
• Parish Councils
• Personal Papers
• Peterborough Abbey
• Peterborough Almshouse Trust
• Peterborough and District Trades Council
• Peterborough Cathedral
• Peterborough City Council
• Peterborough City Elections
• Peterborough Development Corporation
• Peterborough Gentleman's Society
• Petty Sessions
• Photograph Collections
• Police
• Poll Books
• Poor Law Union
• Probate Inventories
• Protestation Returns

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Q

• Quakers
• Quarter Sessions

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R

• Railways
• Roman Catholic Churches
• Rural Deaneries

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S

• Sanitary Districts
• Schools
• School Boards
• Societies and Local Community Groups
• Soke of Peterborough County Council
• Sport

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T

• Tithe
• Turnpike Trusts

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U

• Unions
• United Reform Churches

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V

• Vehichle Licensing

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W

• War Memorials and War Graves
• Wills
• Workhouses

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X

• No records

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Y

• No records

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Z

• No records

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