Qualla: Peterborough https://qualla.com/peterborough en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/g/peterborough-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Peterborough https://qualla.com/peterborough Peterborough: Introduction https://qualla.com/peterborough/ Photo credit Fourinmybarn, CC0. Two queens are buried under the floor of Peterborough Cathedral. Catherine of Aragon lies on the north side of the choir, where Henry VIII placed her after her death at nearby Kimbolton Castle in 1536; her grave is still marked each year with pomegranates, her personal symbol. Mary, Queen of Scots was buried here too, after her execution in 1587, until her son James I had her moved to Westminster Abbey in 1612. Most people in Britain do not know this. They know Peterborough as an hour-out-of-London commuter stop on the East Coast Main Line, a city ringed by 1960s housing estates and brick pits, and they keep going north. They are missing the point.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/g/peterborough-wk/gcrg-peterborough-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Peterborough: Why the City Is Here https://qualla.com/peterborough/ Photo credit ARU, CC BY-SA 4.0. Peterborough sits at the western edge of the Fens, where the higher land drops away into the drained marshes of East Anglia. In Jurassic times the area was a tropical sea, leaving deep beds of Oxford Clay perfect for bricks, plus the limestone that gave the cathedral its stone. T...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/g/peterborough-wk/gcrg-peterborough-why-the-city-is-here.mp3 0:06 2 full Peterborough: What to See Around the Cathedral https://qualla.com/peterborough/ Photo credit Immanuel Giel, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cathedral Square is the obvious place to begin, but what you see first is not the cathedral itself. The Anglican parish church of St John the Baptist, built in 1407, stands on the square, a striking Perpendicular building with a mostly nineteenth-century interior. The cathedral s...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/g/peterborough-wk/gcrg-peterborough-what-to-see-around-the-cathedral.mp3 0:06 3 full Peterborough: Beyond the Old Centre https://qualla.com/peterborough/ Photo credit Michael Trolove, CC BY-SA 2.0. Peterborough was officially designated a New Town in 1967, one of several created to absorb overspill population from London. Three brand-new districts were built on greenfield sites: Bretton to the west, Orton to the south, Paston to the north. A fourth was planned and never bui...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/g/peterborough-wk/gcrg-peterborough-beyond-the-old-centre.mp3 0:06 4 full Peterborough: Where to Eat, Drink, Watch Football https://qualla.com/peterborough/ Photo credit Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0. Queensgate Shopping Centre and Cathedral Square offer the chain dining that is hard to escape in modern English city centres: Five Guys, Nando's, Wagamama, Cote Brasserie, Pizza Express, Wildwood, Argo Lounge. Broadway and Lincoln Road, a block north, are more interesting and mor...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/g/peterborough-wk/gcrg-peterborough-where-to-eat-drink-watch-football.mp3 0:06 5 full Peterborough: Going Onward https://qualla.com/peterborough/ Photo credit The original uploader was Kev747 at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0. Peterborough is one of the great hub cities for the eastern half of England. Stamford, the first conservation area in England, is 25 minutes northwest by train and very much worth a day. Burghley House, the grand Elizabethan mansion of the Cecil family, is a couple of miles south...

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