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Who Should Live in Castor

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25/01/1913

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At the monthly meeting of the Peterborough Rural District Council on this Saturday there was a deep debate recorded by the Peterborough Citizen the following Tuesday under the headline 'Castor invasion by Peterborough house hunters - What Castor Expects.' Peterborough was expanding and new houses were desperately needed, leading to what we now call 'Not in my backyard' syndrome rearing its head. Castor parish council did not think it was desirable to erect the proposed houses and suggested a different type of house, each having a rood of land and being more suitable for widows and retired men. Cllr Goodyer argued that the new houses should be for working men, as there were already more cottages for the elderly than workers in Castor. Cllr Kemp commented that there were already plenty of cottages for widows and old men. It was workmen's cottages that were needed now. Cllr Lee responded that he did not think that, as agricultural people, they would not be able to pay the rent. The clerk, having heard these comments, concluded that it would be impossible for people to pay 4s 6d and rates. The meeting moved on with no decision recorded.

Taken from The Peterborough Book of Days by Brian Jones, The History Press, 2014.

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Destruction by King Sweyn of Denmark

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In 1013 King Sweyn of Denmark, also known as Sweyn Forkbeard, was reported to have arrived in the area north of Peterborough. He had been at war with the country for the last twenty years and devised horrendously painful and humiliating deaths for some of his victims. Unsurprisingly, when he arrived in this area, he destroyed seven villages to the north of Peterborough and murdered or captured all of the inhabitants. The villages were Northborough, Maxey, Bainton, Helpston, Etton, Glinton and Maxey. Thankfully he died in Gainsborough in 1014 after being declared King for only 40 days, and the villages and places of worship were quickly restored. 

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A Lumley Prior, Heroes and Villains, Village Tribune, Issue 98 East, 2016, p 30-31 https://issuu.com/dimension6000/docs/vt_98_east_web



D. McKenna, Sweyn Forkbeard: England's Forgotten Viking King, BBC News, 2013,  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire

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