medeshampstead

Updated: June 25, 2025

And again, "the settlement which arose around the great fenland monastery of S. Peter, the holy house of Medeshampstead, grew by degrees into a borough, and by later ecclesiastical arrangements, into a city, a city and borough to which the changes of our own day have given a growth such as it never knew before."

W. D. (Walter Debenham) Sweeting - The Cathedral Church of Peterborough: A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See