Peterborough in Lincolnshire?!

[spook]

Just wondering, since when has Peterborough ever been in Lincolnshire 

[AngelFish]

Hi Spook

I'm not sure about that, I don't think so.

But this may (or may not!  ) help you...  I know someone who in the not too distant past was born in Peterborough (hospital) but lived in Lincolnshire (where the parents lived), it may have been easy to think that Peterborough was in Lincs  

Angelfish

[MrsLizzy]

It's in Leicestershire isn't it?

[AngelFish]

Not Cambs?  Um, anyone good with Geography?

[Geoff E]

Northants isn't it?  Places south of the Nene used to be in Hunts though.

Stamford is/was at the bottom corner of Lincs ... anything south or west of there is in another county.

[johnP-bedford]

Peterborough was part of Northamptonshire until 1888.
It then became an independant administrative county known as 'Soke of Peterborough'
As from 1965 it merged with Huntingdonshire to be county of H & P
It is now, as from 1974, along with Hunts, contained in Cambridgeshire.

that being said, on Ancestry every census 1851 - 1901, Peterborough is in County of Northamptonshire.

[spook]

Good answer John  I know it's definitely Cambs now. I just wondered why it's shown as Lincs on here 

[whoosh]

from memory
Peterborough registration district incorporates some parts of Southern Lincilnshire.
Perhaps that is why.
Cheers,
Darren M Flowers
Wyrallah NSW
Australia

[Chezp]

I'm in Peterborough and it's def Peterborough Cambs now! Saying that Lincolnshire is just up the road - five/ten minute drive away and you're in LIncs! Go the other way and you're in Hunts!