Historical Peterborough
Today's highly productive agricultural landscape bears no resemblance to the Fens of pre-historic and medieval times. The city, too, has changed enormously - only with the flourishing of the abbey did a town develop at Peterborough, and the last two centuries have seen its extraordinary growth. And yet traces of the past remain - captured as facts and figures in the archives, objects in the museums, and stories handed down through the generations. History is etched into the fabric of the buildings, the courses of hedges, roads and rivers, and lies buried beneath our feet. Here is evidence of human endeavour over thousands of years.
- Peterborough landscape is formed
- Peterborough's first people
- Farmers and potters
- Monuments and mysteries
- Prehistory gives way to the Romans
- The Romans make their mark
- Settlers and saints
- A medieval new town
- From abbey to cathedral, from town to city
- Civil war and a return to peace
- Prosperity and puddles
- A tribute to a rural tradition
- The railway age
- The modern city emerges
- A century of changes
The information in these pages has been kindly provided by Peterborough Museum and is taken from the book "Peterborough, A Story of City and Country, People and Places" which is available to buy from the museum at a cost of £2.00 per copy.
Museum contact information
Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, Priestgate, Peterborough, PE1 1LF, Tel. 01733 343329; Fax. 01733 341928 Email: museum@peterborough.gov.uk