New England is a residential area of
Peterborough
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in the
Peterborough
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district, in the ceremonial county of
Cambridgeshire
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, England. For electoral purposes it forms part of Peterborough North ward. The area is bounded by
Millfield
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to the south,
Dogsthorpe to the east, the
A47 (Soke Parkway) to the north and the
A15 (Bourges Boulevard) to the west. The
Faidhan-e-Madina Mosque opened here in 2003.
Railway lines began operating locally during the 1840s, but it was the 1850 opening of the
Great Northern Railway's main line from London to
York
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, that transformed Peterborough from a market town to an industrial centre. Relatively little urban development took place to the west of the railway, but the
marshalling yard
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s and other installations were labour-intensive and housing for railway workers and their families spread from the vicinity of the
North station
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almost to
Walton Walton may refer to:
People
* Walton (given name)
* Walton (surname)
* Susana, Lady Walton (1926–2010), Argentine writer
Places
Canada
* Walton, Nova Scotia, a community
** Walton River (Nova Scotia)
*Walton, Ontario, a hamlet
United Kingd ...
. The Great Northern built an entire community here, which provided much of the labour for the enormous marshalling yard and associated engine sheds close by.
[Brandon, David and Knight, John ''Peterborough Past: The City and The Soke'' (p.43) Phillimore & Co., Chichester, 2001]
The area falls within the ecclesiastical parish of
Saint Paul
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and a
Victorian
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19th century
* Victorian era, British history during Queen Victoria's 19th-century reign
** Victorian architecture
** Victorian house
** Victorian decorative arts
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church was erected at the Triangle in 1869. Fulbridge County
Primary School
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is located in the area; following the closure of nearby Walton Comprehensive School in July 2007, secondary pupils attend
Queen Katharine Academy
The Queen Katharine Academy (formerly The Voyager Academy and The Voyager School) is a secondary school with academy status in Peterborough in the United Kingdom. The school was formed in 2007 by the amalgamation of Walton Community School and ...
which opened on the same site in September 2007.
References
External links
Fulbridge School
Suburbs of Peterborough
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