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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Burghley like this:
BURGHLEY HOUSE, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter, on the NE border of Northamptonshire; adjacent to the river Welland, and to the Syston and Peterborough railway, in the southern vicinity of Stamford. The mansion was founded in 1575, by Sir William Cecil; is a great hollow Tudor quadrangle; and contains a fine collection of pictures. The park is large; and was laid out by Brown.
Burghley is now part of PETERBOROUGH Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how PETERBOROUGH has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Burghley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Burghley, in Peterborough and Northamptonshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25251
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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