Netherton, Peterborough

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Netherton is a residential area of the city of Peterborough, in the Peterborough district, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. For electoral purposes it forms part of Peterborough West ward.

Netherton means lower farm in Old English, but the area was named after the Netherton Building Company which built the original houses in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Thorpe Primary school is located in the area; secondary pupils attend Jack Hunt School. Jack Hunt swimming pool is located here. It is a 25m (82 feet) dual-use facility, built on school land but owned by Peterborough City Council and operated by Vivacity Peterborough, a charitable trust. The parish church, dedicated to Saint Jude, was built in 1968 on land donated by Thomas Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 10th Earl Fitzwilliam (via the Fitzwilliam Trust).

In 2001 teen-aged Netherton resident Ross Parker was murdered by a gang of up to ten Muslims of Pakistani background who had sought a white male to attack.{{cite news |last= Reville |first= Alan |title= Murdered Ross Parker remembered 10 years on |work= Peterborough Evening Telegraph |url= http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/local/murdered_ross_parker_remembered_10_years_on_1_3077380 |date= 22 September 2011 |access-date= 27 December 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111228040001/http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/local/murdered_ross_parker_remembered_10_years_on_1_3077380 |archive-date= 28 December 2011 |url-status= dead }}{{Citation|last=Her Majesty's Court Service |url=http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/cms/144_13295.htm |title=Minimum Terms, High Court setting of minimum terms for mandatory life sentences under the Criminal Justice Act 2003 |date=24 November 2006 |access-date=27 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606125042/http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/cms/144_13295.htm |archive-date=6 June 2011 }}

{{cite news

| url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/dec/20/race.world

| location=London

| work=The Guardian

| first=Steven

| last=Morris

| title=Three get life in jail for racist killing

| date=20 December 2002| access-date=28 July 2011}}{{cite news|last= Staff| title=Three Asians get life in jail for racial killing|url=http://www.rediff.com/us/2002/dec/20uk.htm|access-date=29 July 2011|publisher=Rediff.com|date=20 December 2002}} A memorial plaque in Parker's memory is located at The Grange in Netherton.{{cite news

| last = Franklin

| first = Neil

| title = In Focus: Three years on the sense of loss is still so real

| url = http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/environment_2_17112/in_focus_three_years_on_the_sense_of_loss_is_still_so_real_1_151261

| newspaper = Peterborough Evening Telegraph

| location = Peterborough

| publisher = Johnston Press

| date = 22 September 2004

| access-date= 29 July 2011}}