English Heritage sites near Peakirk Parish
LONGTHORPE TOWER
5 miles from Peakirk Parish
Longthorpe Tower displays one of the most complete and important sets of 14th century domestic wall paintings in northern Europe.
APETHORPE PALACE
11 miles from Peakirk Parish
Stately Apethorpe Palace, owned by Elizabeth I, then favourite Royal residence for James I and Charles I, has one of the country's most complete Jacobean interiors.
KIRBY HALL
17 miles from Peakirk Parish
Kirby Hall is one of England's greatest Elizabethan and 17th-century houses. Begun by Sir Humphrey Stafford, it was purchased by Sir Christopher Hatton, one of Queen Elizabeth's 'comely young men'.
LYDDINGTON BEDE HOUSE
19 miles from Peakirk Parish
Set beside the church of a picturesque ironstone village, Lyddington Bede House originated as the late medieval wing of a palace belonging to the Bishops of Lincoln.
ELEANOR CROSS, GEDDINGTON
22 miles from Peakirk Parish
In 1290 Eleanor of Castile, the beloved wife of Edward I and mother of his 14 children, died at Harby in Nottinghamshire.
RUSHTON TRIANGULAR LODGE
25 miles from Peakirk Parish
This delightful triangular building was designed by Sir Thomas Tresham (father of one of the Gunpowder Plotters) and constructed between 1593 and 1597.
Churches in Peakirk Parish
St. Pega's Church, Peakirk
Chestnut Close
Peakirk
Peterborough
01733 252 359
St. Pega
Our church in Peakirk is uniquely dedicated to St Pega, giving the village its name - Peyakirke - and preserving the memory of this little known 8th Century Anglo-Saxon saint. Pega was the sister of Saint Guthlac, and followed him when he came east from the Midlands to seek a remote place where he could live a solitary spiritual life. It's said that for a time she lived with him on his fen island, now Crowland, but he sent her away and so she settled here in a hermitage in Peakirk, the closest point to on dry land to his own hermitage.
When he was dying he sent for her with the message that he had in this life avoided her presence so that in eternity they might ‘see one another in the presence of the Father amid eternal joys'. Pega made the journey by boat to Crowland to conduct his funeral rites and the following year set off on a pilgrimage to Rome, where she died in 719.
Of national interest are our Medieval wall paintings.
Current church building dates from 1016!
Pubs in Peakirk Parish
Ruddy Duck
12 St Pegas Road, Peakirk, PE6 7NF
(01733) 252426
theruddyduck.co.uk