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- Title
The history of...Peterborough.
- Abstract
The City of Peterborough is of the new English unitary LEAs created by the last bout of Tory local government reorganization, carved out of the county of Cambridgeshire in April 1998. It was one of the earliest LEAs, having been created an administrative county in its own right in 1888. For 900 years the Soke of Peterborough was part of Northamptonshire. Its ancient title came from the legal powers that the Abbot of Peterborough once exercised. By 1888 some of these powers had passed to the Marquis of Exeter, who moved an amendment to the Local Government Bill of that year which established county councils, making the Soke an administrative county.
- Subjects
PETERBOROUGH (England); NORTHAMPTONSHIRE (England); CAMBRIDGESHIRE (England); ENGLAND; HISTORICAL geography; COUNTY councils
- Publication
Education Journal, 2003, Issue 71, p21
- ISSN
1364-4505
- Publication type
Article