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Longthorpe is an area of the city of Peterborough, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. Located two miles (3.2 km) west from the city centre, the area covers 1,390 acres (560 hectares).
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 .
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]
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.
The old brewery at Langthorpe, beside the River Ure, now converted into housing. The nearest settlements are Boroughbridge 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the south; Milby 0.8 miles (1.3 km) to the north-east; Kirby-on-the-Moor 0.7 miles (1.1 km) to the north and Skelton-on-Ure 1.9 miles (3.1 km) to the west.
On 25 June 1974, she was created a life peer as Baroness Stedman, of Longthorpe in the City of Peterborough, [3] to bolster the Labour Party in the House of Lords, and was appointed as a whip. In January 1979, she was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport and Water Resources.
The St John Baronetcy, of Longthorpe in the County of Northampton, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 10 September 1715 for Francis St John. The title became extinct on his death in 1756.
Longthorne was born in Hull, [1] England, into a musical family [2] of a "travelling, Romany background". [3] He grew up in the Hessle Road area of Hull, known for its fishing community, and considered himself as a "Hessle Roader".