DIRECTORY.] NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. PETERBOROUGH. 505 The c·attle :market, for which a.n Act of Parliament was MUNICIPAL AND 'URBAN SANITARY DISTRICT"­ obtained in May, 18631 occupies an area of 5 acres and was Peterborongh (part of) (including I99 officers opened in May, 1867. under the management of the Peter­ and inmates in the W'orkhonse) ...••...•.....•.•. I8,6Jr borough Cattle Market Company Limited; it holds 104 Minster-p~incts ••. ..• ....•. ..• ••. ..• 277 calves, 4.448 sheep and lambs, 520 pigs, and H5 horses, Fletton (part of)........................................... 1,475 together with market house and the necessary offices for WO<>d.stone (part of) ..•.•. ••• •...•. 796 salesmen. The fairs are St. Peter's, on the 2ndTuesday and Wednesday in July for wool, cattle and horses, held in the 21,219 town; and Bridge fair the 1St Tuesday,Wednesdayand Thurs­ day in October, held in some fields on the south side of the North Ward •...•....•..................•••••........•... 10,643 river, is for wool, beasts, sheep, horses, stock and general East Ward ....•....••.......•...•• 8,30 5 purposes. South Ward.................••.......................•....•. 2,27:1 The principal hotels are the Angel, in Bridge street; the Great Northern,opposite the Great Northern railway station, and the Golden Lion. Bridge street. • PARLIAMENTARY BonOUGR_ Two weekly newspapers are published in the town, the , Peterborough (part of) 18,631 "Peterborough and Huntingdonshire Standard," and the Eastfield n............... 134 " Peterborough Advertiser ;" the "Peterborough Express" Newark "..••............•.....•..-.... 253 is published twice weekly. 1 Longthorpe ~.... ..•....•.... 308 Dogsthorpe * ~ ••••• J ~... 520 A park of twenty-oue acres, opened in 1877. on the north Minste~precincts .,....... 277 side of the town, and the property of the Peterborough Land Fletton (part of)..•..... 1,475 Co. Limited, is now closed to the public. !..................................... Wooclstone (part of) ....••........•.- ~ 796 rThe Public Dispensary, Infirmary and Fever Hospital in ,( Priestgate was originally established in 1815; the late build­ ing& , consisted of a mansion, presented by Charle8 William, • • $ 5th.Earl Fitzwilliam, and converted into an infirmary in ECCLESIASTICAL DISTRICTS-- 1848. These were burnt down in 1884. but have been re­ St. Peter (Cathedral) -. !.lI . 271 constrocted, at j) cost of £4,500, from designs by Henry St. John Baptist (Parish Church) ~ . 3,358 Milnes Townsend, architect, and now contain 50 beds; the St, Mark (Lincoln road) .- . 7,121' a'ferage yearly number of patients is 180 in, and 3,000 Qut. St. Mary (New Toad) .. 5,81t The institution is supported by subscriptions. St. Paul (New England) . la,71 t> I St. Botolph (Longthorpe)..••••.•, . 3°8 The almshouses for the poor comprise 44 in Cumbergate , , called the" town estates,".with an income of about £500 & year, and 26 in Westgate, known as" Wortley's," the income of which is .£40 yearly. The almshouses, as well as the general charities, which include annually about £40 for the :PARISH CLERKS:- benefit of clergy; £20 for Dissenting places of worship; J St.J John the Baptist, Miss Sarah Noble (sextoness). £15 10S. for bread and fuel; £250 for distribution in money, Market place. and £480 for the general uses of the poor, are under the St. Mark's, Edward Rippin Whittle, Boroughbury. direction and management of a self-elected body of feoffees, St. Paul's, New England, John Whyman, New England. at present consisting of seven members only.; the full St. Mary's, George Sharp, 20 Chapel street. number is 13, but vacancies are not filled up until their NewEnglandis a hamlet,withinthe municipalborough, number is reduced to five. The inmates of the almshouses 2 miles north-west on the road to Market Deeping /;lond is the are admitted irrespective of sex and receive 30s. each yearly seat of the extensive engineering works of the Great Northern from the charities. There are also eight almshouses in the Railway Company. Here is a WesleyaJ;l, chapel, erected in Minster precincts, which are partof the Cathedral establish­ 1866. There is a handsome drinking fountain, presented by ment, and are supported from its endowments; they are the Rev. Charles Richard Ball M.A. late vicar of St. Paul's.. occupied by eight aged women, each of whom receives £6 New England, and other members of th~ family in x884, as yearly. a memorial to their parents. - Westwood House. is the re8idence of Henry Hampden Parish Clerk, John Whyman. English esq. J.P. POST & M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.­ The Bishop of Peterborough is lord of the manor of George Brown, receiver. Box cleared at II.45 a.m. & 6 Boroughbury and the Dean and Chapter are lords of the & 8.15 p.m. (week days only). Millfield is the nearest manor of Peterborough. The Bishop, the Dean and Chapter telegraph office and George Charles Wentworth Fitzwilliam esq. J.P. of Mil­ Millfield is a hamlet, li miles north, almost whollY' ton house, are the chief landowners. within the municipal borough and adjoining New England The neighbourhood of Peterborough is generally spoken of on the south-east and Dogsthorpe on the south-west. There. as being situated upon the lower oolites, and although the is a Congregational chapel, erected in 1879, and seating 150 hard rock on which the soil of the district rests is invariably persons. one of the members of the oolitic foundation, the subsoil in POST, M. O. &T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office•.­ the neighbourhood of the town is gravel, in masses inter­ Ewen Whitwell, postmaster. Letters received through spersed withlayers of fine sand, varying from a few inehes to Peterborough are delivered at 7 &; 11.30 a.ID.; dis­ six or eight feet in 1ihicknes8. Eastward of the town the fen patched at. 2.55, 6.25 & 8.20 p.m. (week days only) lands appear, in some instances being covered by patches of Longthorpe is an ecclesiastical parish, 2 miles west gravel and in all cases resting on a tenacious blue clay, called from Peterborough, formed in 1850 from the parish of St• •, Oxfordclay,"of considerable thickness, the peaty soil aboTe John the Baptist. The church of St. Botolph is a plain it varying in different localities from one to twelve feet; building of coarse rubble, dating from the '13th century. while not unfrequently, before comiug to the Oxford clay, consisting of chancel. nave, aisles and a western bell cote, two layers of peat are found with a stratum of brown clay containing one bell : in the chancel is a piscina and aumbry :­ interposed between them, showing that during the formation two other brackets and a piscina are in the south aisle and of the fens in this district the land was subject to incursions two brackets in thenorth aisle: there is a tablet in thesouth of the sea. 1n the town itself the gravel beds rest on a series aisle to Frances, eldest daughter of Sir Frands St. John of shales, clays and compact blue limestone, reaching to a bart. of thIS place, d. 1794: the church was restored in 1869.. depth of 60 feet and resting on a bed of white sand, which is and will seat about 300 persons. The register dates from the oppermost member -of the Great Oolite. The beds above the year 1837; the earlier register is included in that of St. comprehend the cornbrash and forest marble series, the John the Baptist, Peterborough. The living is B vicarage, difIerent layers of which are of varying and uncertain thick­ gross yearly value £106, inclnding 4- acres of glebe, with ness and, as it were, dovetailed into each other in such a residence, in the gift of George Charles Wentwonh Fitz­ manner as to rendet the sinking of "ells for a permanent william esq. (whose grandfather, Charles WiUiam, 5th Earl supply of water a matter .Qf considerable difficulty and un­ Fitzwilliam X.G. in the year 1850 endowed itwith an income certainty, so much so that in one position water may be of £roo a year), and held since 1887 by the Rev. William obtained at less than 20 feet, whereas only a few yards dis~ Perowne Holmes M.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, tant it may be requisite to continue the sinking to D;lore thau minor canon of Peterborough and chaplain of Peterborough double that depth, nor can any reliable estimate be formed workhouse. Thorpe Hall, the seat of Lt.-Col. Charles Isham as to the dip or direction of the retentive rock.. Strong J.P. stands in Thorpe Park, a small but beautiful . The area of the old parish of St. John the Baptist is 6,203 demesne; the mansion is a handsome stone building in the acres; rateable value, £96,304; the population in r88r of Italian style, and was restored and two new lodges were the municipal and parliamentary borough was- added by the late Rev. W. Strong M.A. Thorpe Tower, in.