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Longthorpe tower is located in the village of Longthorpe, now a residential area of Peterborough in the United Kingdom, about two miles (3 km) to the west of the city centre. At the start of the 14th century, Robert Thorpe built the tower as an extension to an existing fortified manor house .
Longthorpe was formerly a chapelry in Peterborough-St. John-the-Baptist parish, [9] from 1 November 1908 Longthorpe was a civil parish in its own right (being formed from Peterborough Without) until it was abolished on 1 April 1929 and merged with Peterborough. [10] In 1921 the parish had a population of 274. [11]
Thorpe Hall at Longthorpe in the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, is a Grade I listed building, [1] built by Peter Mills between 1653 and 1656, for the Lord Chief Justice, Oliver St John. The house is unusual in being one of the very few mansions built during the Commonwealth period. [ 2 ]
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Longthorpe Tower (1310), a Grade I listed building. Peterborough Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Andrew, whose statues look down from the three high gables of the West Front, was founded as a monastery in AD 655 and re-built in its present form between 1118 and 1238.
In March 2023, after years of financial woes and struggles to maintain Price Tower, new owners promised to breathe new life into the Tower with an infusion of $10M investment. The new life has ...
On the island of Tresco, it comprises a tall, circular gun tower and an adjacent gun platform, and was designed to prevent enemy naval vessels from entering New Grimsby harbour. Sir Robert Blake constructed the tower between in the aftermath of the Parliamentary invasion of the islands at the end of the English Civil War. Garrison Walls: Ramparts
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