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Opened in 1978 which covers a location of 3.5 miles (5.6 km) long from west of Castor to the centre of Peterborough is the Nene Park in Cambridgeshire. Medeshamstede, which later became Peterborough Cathedral, is a monastery which establishment was seen during the Anglo-Saxon period. An administrative county in its own right with boundaries similar although not identical to the current unitary authority was formed by the ancient Soke of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire from 1889.

Since the early nineteenth century, brick-making had been a small seasonal craft but using the harder clays from a lower level had resulted in a much more efficient process during the 1890s successful experiments at Fletton. Since 1934, Peterborough United Football Club, in Cambridgeshire, known as The Posh, has been the local football team.

In 2009, University Centre Peterborough opened to the first 850 students. Functions as a retained fire station nowadays, the Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade is one of few of its kind. At Stanground, there will be a 1,500-home expansion and at Paston, a 1,200-home expansion when the developing Hampton township will be completed in Cambridgeshire.

To be demolished over the coming years, in July 2007, five of Peterborough's 15 secondary schools were closed in Cambridgeshire. Followed with the flagship Thomas Deacon Academy, designed by Lord Foster of Thames Bank which opened in September 2007 were John Mansfield (now an adult learning centre), Hereward (formerly Eastholm, now City of Peterborough Academy, sponsored by the Greenwood Dale Foundation Trust) and Deacon's. Milton Hall near Castor, an ancestral address of the Barons and later Earls Fitzwilliam, is another Grade I listed building in Cambridgeshire, also dates from the same period.

Containing unique information about the history of England and Cambridgeshire after the Norman conquest, the Peterborough Chronicle is a version of the Anglo-Saxon one written here by monks in the 12th century. Peterborough Development Corporation was formed in partnership with Peterborough and county councils to house London's overspill population in new townships sited around the existing urban area was designated a New Town in Cambridgeshire in 1967. One each at Bretton (originally to be called Milton, a hamlet in the Middle Ages), Orton, Paston/ Werrington and Castor, were the four townships in Cambridgeshire. Peterborough Regional College and City College Peterborough are the two colleges Peterborough in Cambridgeshire have.

In 2003, Planning permission for the expansion of an integrated care centre on the location of the former Fenland Wing at Peterborough District Hospital was granted. Although the beet sugar factory which opened there in 1926 was closed in 1991, the British Sugar remains headquartered in Woodston in Cambridgeshire. A 367 MWe gas-fired plant in Fengate operated by Centrica Energy was the Peterborough Power Station in Cambridgeshire.