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Article: ARCHITECTURE: Cathedral leaps into top 10 UK landmarks.

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Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England)
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May 12, 2006
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CRITICS can no longer point the finger and brand Peterborough a cultural desert - for the city has been named as home to one of the UK's favourite landmarks.

Peterborough Cathedral has come sixth in the latest Top 10 UK Landmarks list - ahead of London's Tower Bridge and Liverpool's Royal Liver Building.

Described as a "photographer's dream", tens of thousands of people travel to the city's minster precincts to visit the ornate building.

The first abbey was established at Peterborough in around 655 AD - and it has been a site of Christian worship ever since.

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