Ravensthorpe is a residential area and electoral ward of the city of
Peterborough
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, in the ceremonial county of
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfor ...
, England.
Ravensthorpe County
Primary School
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is located in the area with secondary pupils usually attending nearby
Jack Hunt School in
Netherton.
Ravensthorpe was mainly built as a part of north-west
Bretton in the 1960s. It was built primarily as council housing and cheap family residencies during Peterborough's extensive growth during the 1970s and 1980s.
References
Suburbs of Peterborough
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