Peterborough (UK authority)

Unitary authority in eastern England, created in 1998 from part of Cambridgeshire.

Area
334 sq km/129 sq mi

Towns and cities
Peterborough (administrative headquarters), Wittering, Old Fletton, Thorney, Glinton, Northborough, Peakirk

Features
River Nene; western margins of the Fens; St Peter's Cathedral (Peterborough), 12th century, containing Catherine of Aragon's tomb; Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre at Peakirk

Industries
aluminium founding and manufacture, electronics, domestic appliances, plastics and rubber manufacture, precision engineering, telecommunications equipment, food manufacture and processing

Population
(2001) 156,100