Heritage & Culture

Explore Peterborough’s rich and exciting heritage from the comfort of your browser, with The Moment’s Historic Peterborough section.

The History Man

If there’s a ‘face’ of local heritage, then it belongs to Stuart Orme, Vivacity’s Interpretation Manager. RICHARD GUNN meets...

Beautiful Burghley

RICHARD GUNN visits Burghley House near Stamford, probably the finest of England’s surviving Elizabethan houses, and tells its history...

Steam along the Nene

One of this region’s biggest tourist draws is the Nene Valley Railway, running from Peterborough to Wansford and Yarwell....

Flag Fen | Last chance to see

One of the most important Bronze Age sites in Britain lies just a few miles outside of Peterborough. Yet...

Norman Cross

RICHARD GUNN reveals the story of one of Peterborough’s lesser-known historical sites

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