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. DIRECTORY .J XORTHAl\IFTONSHIRE. PBTERBOROt:GH. -~4-I in 870 and 1013, and in 1048 made dPpendent is flat; !oil, rich and productive; subsoil, gravel and on the .Abbey of ; the present struciure, silt. The chief crops are wheat, peas, barley, beans dedicated to St. Pega (Virgin), was built by John de and potatoes. The area is 6o6 acres of land and IO oi Wysbeck, abbot of Crowland, as the chapel of a collegE' watPr; rateable valu~, £2,029; the population in 1901 founded here by him, about 1470, and is a building in was 239. Here are gravel pits in which a considerable the Early Decorated 'style, crmsisting of chancel, retain­ trade is carried on. ing a double piscina, and an elegant east window, and a G'lerk, George Percival. small nave, with a priest's doorway and a trefoiled cross on the western gable: it was restored and almost en- Post O.ffice.-John W. Prentice, sub-postmaster. Letters tirely rebuilt in I88o, by Francis James esq. of Edg- arrive through at 7·30 & I I. I5 a.m.; worth Manor, , and is used both as a Sunday dispatched at 10·35 a.m. & 6.25 p.m. ; no sunday school and for meetings. .A cross, in the Gothic style, delivery or collec5ion. Glinton, I mile distant, is was erected in I904, in the centre of the , by the the nearest money order & telegraph office present rector as a gift to tlhe parish, and there is also The children of this place attend the Elementary school a drinking fountain, erected by .voluntary subscriptions, at Glinton in memory of Her late :Majesty Queen Victoria. The Assistant Overseer, Henry Robinson Dean and Chapter of Peterborough are lords of the Railway Station, Thomas Legate, station master manor. The principal landowners are Mrs. Jane Ver- gette and Andrew ·Percival esq. Peterborough. The land Carrier.-James Dudley, to Peterborough, wed. & sat James Rev. Canon Edwd. )I.A.Rectory Dudley James, beer retlr. & carrier Neaver'son Elizabeth (Mrs.), gravel & Morris The Misses Goodale John, farmer sand merchant & farmer I Strange Henry T Guymer Bartholomew Wilson, grocer Neaverson Robert, carpenter &c Vergette Mrs Guymer Emma (Mrs.), dress maker Percival George, carter .Neaverson Arthur, Railway inn,wheel- Prentice John William,baker & grocer, ' COMMERCIAL. wright & blacksmith Post office Archer John, farmer Neaverson Charles, coal merchant & Smith Arthur B2nj. Black Bull P.H Badger Benjamin, farmer brick manufacturer Wright Charles Sneath, corn merchant.

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• J)ETERB<>ROUGH • 'VITH LO~GTHORPE AND NEWARK. PETERBOROGGH is an ancient city and seat of a diocese, '\"orfolk, and another line of the Great Northettl extend-s' a parliamentary and municipal , polling place for :,itrough Spalding and .Boston to Grimsby and Hull ; the the Northern division of the , and is the head of norough is also 12 miles south-east from Stamford, 18 the Liberty or sake of Peterborough, which is co-exten­ aorth from , 30 from Boston, 30 from Lynn, sive with the hundred of Nassaburgh. The soke or 30 from , 30 from , 30 from Market liberty (.A. S. " soc." a place privileged to hold local courts) Harborough, 20 from , 40 from , 43 from has, under the " .Act, 1888," been Lincoln, 45 from , 45 from , and · declared a separate "," distinct 5o from . The bridge over the N ene at thu from the remainder of , and occupies ~nd of Broad Bridge street is a structure of iron. a peninsula bounded by the of Lincoln, Cam­ erected in 1872 at a cost of ov-er £6,ooo, and replaced bridge and Huntingdon, on the north, east and south an old wooden bridge; a general survey of the· river respectively, and comprises, besides Peterborough, about Nene was made about I85o, by eminent engineers;• for thirty . During the Saxon period the lord of the purpose of making it navigable for vessels of 8o tons­ the sake of Peterborough had the power or liberty of burden from Wisbech, and for the better drainage of the-· holding a court and administering justice within its meadows from the periodical floods to which they are­ boundaries, and this system was subsequently continued wbject. Under the provisions of the "Local Government by the Abbots of Peterborough, who either enforced in Act, 1894.'' the following new parishes have been formed: person, as lords, the observance of the ancient socage Peterborough Within and Peterborough '\Vithout, from and customs, or appointed a deputy to act for the ancient of St. John the Baptist;· Fletton them. On the establishment of quarter sessions c. 23 Urban and Fletton Rural, from Fletton civil parish; and· Edw. Ill. (1349-so), the separate jurisdiction of_the soke Woodstone Urban and Woodstone Rural, from '\Voodstone· - was still maintained as distinct from that of the county civil parish. Peterborough Within, Fletton Urban and o! Northampton; and, except for Parliamentary purpose• Woodstone are the parts within the . and matters relating to the militia, it is entirely in· The borough, incorporated by charter, dated March -r7th, - dependent of that county. The soke has its own magis­ 1874• is now divided into four wards and is governed by trates, who are appointed by a Lord Paramount, or a , six aldermen and eighteen oouncillors. The Custos Rotulorum, acting under a commission of oyer city is well paved and is lighted with gas by a comrany · and terminer, and gaol dehvery, as well as under the from works in New .road, and also by electric light, . ordinary commission, and the magistrates for the liberty supplied since 1901 by the corporation from a station in• still retain the power of hanging a criminal in cases of .!.lberll place, and excellent water is obtained from worlis,. murder, which in fac11 they exercised so late RI! the year the property of the corporation, at Brace borough. Electric· 1812 The .Acts 6o Goo. Ill. (I819-20) and I Geo. IV. c. tramway11 were opened in Feb. 1903, by a local company. 14 (r82o-r), though giv-ing the liberty Bench the power I The municipal borough comprises parts of the parishes or to commit (for m:urder only) to the county assizes, did St. John the Baptist, .All Saints, St. Mark, St. Mary and: not their full rights of gaol delivery. The soke St. Paul, the hamlets of Eastfield, Millfield and New or liberty has also a separate rate, out of which all , and also part of Fletton and part of W oodstone,. payments are made, and a separate police force, ap­ both transferred from Hunts to the soke of Peterborougb pointed by and under the control of the magistrates of by the "Local Government Act, 1888." '!'he parha­ ' the suke. In the provisions of the "Police .Act, 1856" mentary borough, ext~nded in 1868, includes the whole . (19 & 20 Vict.), the "Weights and Measures Act, of the municipal area and the outlying portions of the 1878 " (4r & 42 Vi et. e. 49 ), and the " Contagions old parish of St. John the Baptist, including the hamlets . Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878" (41 & 42 Vict. c. 74), of Longthorpe, Dogsthorpe and Newark. Peterborough the suke of Peterborough, like that of Ely, is in each formerly sent two members to Parliament, but under the instance treated S! a separat~ county. Quarter ses­ provisions of the "Redistribution of Seats .Act, 1•885.'' the l'ions for the liberty are held at the Sesosions Court in number was reduced t<> one. Pt>terborough, and petty sessions at the same place. Peterborough was anciently annexed to the diocese of Th~ city of Peterborough, which is the head of a Lincoln, from which it was separated at the Dissolution poor nnion and of a district, is mostly and erected into a separate see, and the diocese com­ situated on the northern bank of the Nene, separating prises the counties of Northampton, Leicester and it from Ilm1tingdonshire, 81 miles from by tho:! , divided into three archdeaconries. It is now · high road, and i& at the junction of the four principal ecclesiastic!llly in the rur:ll deanery of P~terborough railways, 76! miles from London by the Great Northern, (first portion), and archde.aconry of . The 102~ by the G:reat Eastern, no! by the London and cathedral establishment consists of the bishop, dean, 1'\orth Western, t.he Midland communicating throu!i;h its four residentiary canons, the archdeacons of Northamp­ 1 Leicester and Peterborough branch ; the Midland and ton, Leicester and Oakham, twenty-four honorary Great Northern joint railway gives access to Lynn and canons, three minor canons (one being precentor and