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Peterborough (City partly in Huntingdonshire)

a city partly in Huntingdonshire, but chiefly in Northamptonshire, England, the latter portion being on the left or N. bank of the Nen river, at the edge of the fen country, 76 miles N. of London. Here, at Medeshamstede, in 655, the Mercian thane Saxulf founded the great Benedictine abbey of SS. Peter, Paul, and Andrew, which, destroyed by by the Danes in 870, was restored in 966, plundered by