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The ET entertainment team try out local activities:

» If you would like to be featured in How to, contact Ian Ray on 01733 588721, or email ian.ray@peterboroughtoday.co.uk.

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Local leisure, history and sporting activities

• Ferry Meadows

  Including a video: Country park running for 6 miles along the River Nene

• Green Wheel

  Network of cycle ways around the city.

• Nene Valley Railway

  Preserved steam railway and seven and a half mile track & Railworld - Family attraction highlighting modern and future train travel

• Sacrewell Farm

  A working farm administered by the William Scott Abbott Trust

• Queensgate Shopping Centre

  Ultimate shopping experience for all the family. It boasts more than 80 stores and a wide selection of all-year event

History

• Burghley House

  The finest Elizabethan stately home in England. It was built and mostly designed by William Cecil, Lord High Treasurer of England, between 1565 and 1587, and it is still a family home for his descendants.

• Flag Fen - Bronze Age Centre

  Flag Fen's Bronze Age construction was first uncovered in 1982 when a team led by Francis Pryor carried out a survey of dykes in the area funded by English Heritage.

• Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery

  Discover some of the treasures of Peterborough's heritage for free, including the popular Peterborough Ghost Walk.

• Peterborough Cathedral

  Peterborough Cathedral has been a site of Christian worship since 655AD, when the Abbey Church was founded.

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Sport & Leisure ideas*:

• Play golf at Orton Meadows, or Thorpe Wood
• Peterborough United FC
• Peterborough Greyhound racing
• Peterborough Phantoms Ice hockey team
• Peterborough Panthers Speedway team
• Lakeside Superbowl
• Swimming in Peterborough
• Peterborough Mountaineering Club - Climbing Wall
• Cambridgeshire: Countryside Events Leaflet
• Cuckoo's Hollow, Werrington

* Peterborough Today & The Evening Telegraph are not responsible for the content of external websites. Back to list of activities

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E-mag - The Guide: to local entertainment

Read the latest Guide entertainment supplement as it appeared in the ET, every Friday.

Contacts and information:

» If you have any events coming up or would like to be featured in a How to..., contact our editorial team on
01733 588721, or email ian.ray@
peterboroughtoday.co.uk.

» Send your listings to Gaenor Keating on 01733 588702 or email gaenor.keating@
peterboroughtoday.co.uk, deadline for submissions is Tuesday noon.

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