In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Dogsthorpe like this:

DOGSTHORPE, a hamlet in St. John-Baptist parish, Northampton; 1¾ mile N of Peterborough. Acres, 2, 130. Real property, £6, 837. Pop., 425. Houses, 96. There are a chapel of ease and a dissenting chapel.

Dogsthorpe through time

Dogsthorpe is now part of PETERBOROUGH Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how PETERBOROUGH has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Dogsthorpe itself, go to Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Dogsthorpe, in Peterborough and Northamptonshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25256

Date accessed: 08th April 2026


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