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Dogsthorpe

Dogsthorpe is a residential area and electoral ward of the city of Peterborough, in the Peterborough district, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England.

The place

Dogsthorpe is a residential area and electoral ward of the city of Peterborough, in the Peterborough district, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. The population of the ward at the 2021 Census was 11,500. Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service maintain a fire station, crewed day and night and equipped with Water Tender, Rescue Vehicle and Aerial Platform, on Dogsthorpe Road.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dogsthorpe

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Peterborough

    Peterborough is a cathedral city in the City of Peterborough district in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. The city is 74 miles north of London, on the River Nene.

    3.2 km · cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Peterborough Cathedral

    Peterborough Cathedral, properly the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew, and formerly known as Peterborough Abbey or St Peter's Abbey, is a cathedral in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, in the United Kingdom. The seat of the Anglican Bishop of Peterborough, it is dedicated to the Apostles Saint Peter, Saint Paul, and Saint Andrew, whose statues look down from the three high gables of the West Front.

    3.1 km · cathedral in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    London Road Stadium

    London Road, currently known as the Weston Homes Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Peterborough, England. The stadium is in Fletton, south of the River Nene.

    3.9 km · football stadium in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Flag Fen

    Flag Fen, east of Peterborough, England, is a Bronze Age site which was constructed about 3,500 years ago and consists of more than 60,000 timbers arranged in five very long rows, creating a wooden causeway across the wet fenland. Part-way across the structure a small island was formed.

    3.3 km · archaeological open-air museum in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St John the Baptist, Peterborough

    St John the Baptist Church is a Grade I listed Church of England parish church in the city of Peterborough, now Cambridgeshire, England.

    3.2 km · church in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery

    Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery houses the historical and art collections of the city of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, England. Managed by Peterborough Limited on behalf of the city council, it is part of the Museums in Cambridgeshire partnership.

    3.4 km · History and art museum in Peterborough, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Old Guild Hall

    The Guildhall is a municipal building in Cathedral Square, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.2 km · building in Peterborough, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Peterborough Castle

    Peterborough Castle, also known as Mount Thorold and Touthill, was a medieval motte and bailey castle in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England.

    3 km · castle in the UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Peterborough Combined Court Centre

    The Peterborough Combined Court Centre is a Crown Court venue, which deals with criminal cases, as well as a County Court venue, which deals with civil cases, in Rivergate, Peterborough, England.

    3.4 km · judicial building in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Nene Viaduct

    The Nene Viaduct is a railway viaduct that carries the East Coast Main Line on the River Nene in the East of England. It is situated approximated 1 mile to the south of Peterborough railway station, and its two tracks still carry high-speed trains in the modern day.

    3.7 km · railway viaduct in Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Dogsthorpe

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 79 km · London Luton (LTN), 81 km · London Stansted (STN), 85 km
Stations
Peterborough railway station, 3.3 km · Peterborough Nene Valley railway station, 3.9 km · Walton (Cambridgeshire) railway station, 3.8 km · Peterborough Queensgate bus station, 3.2 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Dogsthorpe
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Dogsthorpe
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Dogsthorpe
    121 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dogsthorpe

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Dogsthorpe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    225 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    344 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    356 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    461 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    495 km

If you know how people move in Dogsthorpe – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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  • Eye Greenvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK3.1 km
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  • Pastonsuburb of Peterborough, United Kingdom1.8 km
  • Gunthorperesidential area of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom2.6 km