The Bull Hotel & Brasserie
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

The Bull Hotel is an exclusive hotel in the heart of the city of Peterborough. A stone's throw away from the Norman Peterborough Cathedral and opposite the modern Queensgate Shopping Centre. Situated in the heart of the city of Peterborough and minutes from the railway and bus stations. 118 fully-equipped bedrooms. Independent Conference Centre with seven air-conditioned rooms with maximum daylight and state of the art technology. Computer flooring and isdn facility. Ballroom capacity of 180 with four additional training rooms, Osib's restaurant, Pastroudis bar and lounge. Over 100 car park places for overnight guests.

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.