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The town's name changed to ''Burch'' (Old English ''burh'', "fort") after Abbot Kenulf constructed a defensive wall around the town. The name of the abbey's titular saint, ''Peter'', was prefixed to that name, giving rise to the modern name Peterborough. The town's name was recorded in the [[Domesday Book]] (1086) as ''Abbatia St Petri De Burg''.
The town's name changed to ''Burch'' (Old English ''burh'', "fort") after Abbot Kenulf constructed a defensive wall around the town. The name of the abbey's titular saint, ''Peter'', was prefixed to that name, giving rise to the modern name Peterborough. The town's name was recorded in the [[Domesday Book]] (1086) as ''Abbatia St Petri De Burg''.
The abbey was attacked by [[Flemish]] mercenaries in 1102 and almost entirely destroyed by fire in 1116, along with much of the settlement of Peterborough. St Peter's Abbey, the building that would become Peterborough Cathedral, was constructed on the site of the ruined abbey, with work beginning in 1118 and finishing over 100 years later in 1238 when the new monastic church was consecrated.<ref>[https://www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/history.aspx History - Peterborough Cathedral]</ref>
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