Express by Holiday Inn - Peterborough
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

The hotel is adjacent to the East of England showground and 1 mile from the A1(M) with easy access to the city centre. The Express by Holiday Inn Peterborough is a modern hotel conveniently located one mile to the East of the A1(M) and four miles from the city centre adjacent to the East Of England Showground. The hotel offers 80 well-equipped modern bedrooms, with children up to 19 years of age staying free when sharing a room with their parents. Each bedroom has en-suite bathroom with power-shower, direct dial telephones, modem access, hairdryer, tea and coffee making facilities, colour TV with pay movies and satellite channels. Business facilities include photocopying and facsimile services, available on request at reception. The hotel has ample free car parking. Our hotel is designed specifically for business and leisure travellers who want to 'stay smart' at great value-for-money per room prices. You'll find the Express by Holiday Inn Peterborough is the ideal base from which to visit the city centre of Peterborough and its Cathedral where the first Queen of Henry VIII, Katharine of Aragon, is buried. Other attractions and places of interest nearby include Burghley House, Nene Valley Railway, Flag Fen (Bronze Age) Excavations, Peterborough Football Club and Thorpe Hall. Duxford Imperial War Museum and Cambridge City Centre are located within 45 minutes drive from the hotel.

The Romans first established the fort of Durobrivae in the vicinity around 43 AD which later grew into the town. Peterborough (Burgh, Burgus sancti Petri) is proved by its original name Medeshampstede to have been a Saxon village before 655 when Saxulf, a monk, founded the monastery on land granted to him for that purpose by Penda, king of Mercia. Its name was altered to Burgh between 992 and 1005 after Abbot Kenulf had made a wall round the minster, but the town does not appear to have been a borough until the 12th century. The burgesses received their first charter from "Abbot Robert" — probably Robert of Sutton (1262–1273). Longthorpe TowerHistorically the Dean and Chapter, who succeeded the Abbot as lords of the manor, appointed a high bailiff, and the constables and other borough officers were elected at their court leet, but the borough was incorporated in 1874 under the government of a Mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors. Among the privileges claimed by the abbot as early as the 13th century was that of having a prison for felons taken in the soke and borough. In 1576 Bishop Scamble sold the lordship of the hundred of Nassaburgh, which is coextensive with the soke, to Queen Elizabeth I, who gave it to Lord Burghley, and from that time until the 19th century he and his descendants, marquesses of Exeter, had a separate gaol in Peterborough for prisoners arrested in the soke.