Westwood, Cambridgeshire

Westwood is residential area of the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. For electoral purposes it forms part of Ravensthorpe ward. Manufacturers of industrial machinery, Baker Perkins, relocated here from London in 1903. [ [http://www.bakerperkinsgroup.com/content/1/2/the-baker-perkins-story.html The Baker Perkins Story] Baker Perkins Group (retrieved 28 April 2008)] HMP Peterborough, the first purpose-built prison to house both men and women, opened on the site of the former engineering works in 2005.

The housing estate was built in the early 1970s on land formerly in use as RAF Peterborough, a Second World War training base for allied and Commonwealth pilots. [Davies, Elizabeth et al. [http://www.peterborough.gov.uk/page-9583 A century of changes] "Peterborough: A Story of City and Country, People and Places" (pp.26-27) Peterborough City Council and Pitkin Unichrome, 2001]

Highlees County Primary School is located in the area; secondary pupils attend nearby Jack Hunt School in Netherton or the Voyager School in Walton.

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