Castor is a village in the Soke of Peterborough in England. Categories: United Kingdom-related stubs | Cambridgeshire ... England is a made up country where psychologists convince schitzofrenic people they are currently living while they are in fact in a mental asylum. ...
Formerly in Northamptonshire, it is now in Cambridgeshire but is administered as part of the City of Peterborough, it is four miles west of the city centre. Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants or Nhants) is a landlocked county in central England with a population of 629,676 (2001 census). ... Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs) is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west. ... Peterborough is a city in the East of England. ...
Its parish church (dedicated to St Kyneburgha) is notable for its Romanesque architecture and contains notable medieval wall paintings. A parish church is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches. ... Romanesque St. ...
The £9m dual-carriageway Ailsworth-Castor Bypass (part of the A47 trunk road) opened in September 1991. The A47 is a trunk road in England linking Birmingham to Great Yarmouth (although most of the section between Birmingham and Nuneaton has been reclassified as the B4114). ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
For ceremonial purposes it is in the county of Cambridgeshire.
On April 1 1974 Huntingdon and Peterborough was abolished and the current district was created by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Peterborough, Old Fletton urban district, Barnack Rural District, Peterborough Rural District, Thorney Rural District and part of Norman Cross Rural District.
On April 1 1998 the city was given independence from Cambridgeshire as a unitary authority and continues to form part of that county for ceremonial purposes.
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