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Ooh excellent. I thought you'd given up on days out so this review is a welcome return to the DG stuff that I enjoy the most.

milliem | 16.09.21 - 11:03 a.m. | #

My friend and I did a day trip to Peterborough in Nov. 2019 mainly so we could go on an HST before they were retired.

Sadly, the full front view of the cathedral was partly obscured by a collection of wooden cabins in their Christmas Market.

But the inside of the Cathedral was indeed a wow!

Walking along both sides of the river was the second best part of the day - many ducks, geese and swans.

John Simmons | 16.09.21 - 12:46 p.m. | #

En route to Scotland recently I changed trains at Peterborough. I gazed across at the cathedral from the platforms whilst wondering whether the unexplored (by me) town centre was worth a visit. Beyond the cathedral, it would appear it probably isn't.

Frank F | 16.09.21 - 1:09 p.m. | #

My only contribution is that Peterborough is the base of Ideal Shopping Direct Ltd, located on the Newark Road and home to Channel 22's Ideal World shopping channel.

Hardly a tourist destination, but I thought you might like to know where it's televised from.

Petras409 | 16.09.21 - 5:30 p.m. | #

Having only been to Peterborough for a training event held in the Great Northern Hotel opposite the station, I had sometimes thought I should return one day and see the city properly. I'm now less convinced that I should.

Anders | 16.09.21 - 6:32 p.m. | #

What surprised me about Peterborough when I was researching it was that, as well as the Milton Keynes-ish New Town parts with sweeping dual carriageways circling the various zones, and footpaths and cycle-ways going between them, there was the ancient cathedral in the middle and several established manufacturing centres around the place making traditional things like engines.

ActonMan | 16.09.21 - 8:38 p.m. | #

There are some Peterburgians - our cathedral guide was one - who consider only the area north of the Nene to be the true city, as the river formed the boundary between the Soke of Peterborough (a semi-autonomous part of Northants) and the Isle of Ely (ditto of Cambridgeshire). Indeed the boundary between the dioceses still follows the river.

Apart from possibly the cathedral, the most interesting place to visit in Peterborough is the archeological site at Flag Fen - one of the largest structures of its period, and well preserved in the anaeroblc conditions of the Fenland peat. Unfortunately its Bronze Age builders did not have the foresight to build it anywhere near a bus route, so it is difficult to visit without your own transport.

Timbo | 16.09.21 - 8:51 p.m. | #

Peterborough museum is surprisingly good, and worth returning for if vaguely in the area.

JJ | 16.09.21 - 11:06 p.m. | #

Oh, I missed this yesterday, having thought the first post was it for the day!!

Cornish Cockney | 17.09.21 - 1:59 p.m. | #

I visited Peterborough often as a teenager because it had a good record shop - one of the early branches of Andy's Records.

I also took my driving test in Peterborough. No hill starts.

JonathanC | 18.09.21 - 1:40 p.m. | #











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