Peterborough

Peterborough, an English cathedral city, on the Nen, partly in Huntingdonshire and partly in Northamptonshire, on the edge of the Fen country, 76 m. N. of London; has an old town-hall, manufactures of farm implements, trade in malt and coal, and is a great railway centre; the cathedral is one of the finest in Britain, of very varied architecture, was restored and reopened afterwards in 1890.

Population (circa 1900) given as 25,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)