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The proposed layout for the new site on Thorpe Road involved an octagonal outer wall, a rectangular prison building at the centre of the site and an entrance block at the front breaking the outer wall at that point. [6] [7] The complex was designed by William Donthorne in the Norman style, built in stone at a cost of £8,000 and was completed ...
Peterborough District Hospital was the acute district general hospital serving the city of Peterborough and north Cambridgeshire, east Northamptonshire and Rutland in the United Kingdom. Located in West Town, Peterborough , the hospital was decommissioned in 2010 and finally demolished in 2015.
The school was established in 1895 as a girls' day school on Park Road, Peterborough, and moved to the present ten-acre site at Westwood House, Thorpe Road in 1936. The school was originally called "Peterborough High School" and changed its name to Westwood House in 1936. In 1991 the name changed to "Peterborough High School".
For electoral purposes it forms part of Peterborough West ward. Netherton means lower farm in Old English, but the area was named after the Netherton Building Company which built the original houses in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Thorpe Primary school is located in the area; secondary pupils attend Jack Hunt School.
Thorpe Wood is a 10 hectare nature reserve on the western outskirts of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. [1] This is ancient woodland on heavy clay, with mature oak and ash trees, and an understorey of hazel and field maple.
The Getty Villa art museum is threatened by the flames of the wind-driven Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades, California, Jan. 7, 2025. A fast-moving brushfire in a Los Angeles suburb burned ...
The PE postcode area, also known as the Peterborough postcode area, [2] is a group of 36 postcode districts in eastern England, within 18 post towns.These cover north and west Cambridgeshire (including Peterborough, Huntingdon, Chatteris, St. Neots, St. Ives, March and Wisbech), much of south and east Lincolnshire (including Bourne, Stamford, Spalding, Boston, Skegness and Spilsby), and west ...
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 ]