Wothorpe

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Wothorpe is a village and civil parish in the Peterborough unitary authority of Cambridgeshire, England. It is in the far north-west of the district, and faces Stamford (in Lincolnshire) over the River Welland. The parish borders Northamptonshire on its west. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 226.

The Priory of Wothorpe was a "small Benedictine nunnery", founded apparently around 1160. All but one of the nuns died in the outbreak of Plague in 1349, with the survivor becoming part of the Priory of Stamford. The property was dissolved by Henry VIII, being granted to Robert Cecil. As a parish, it was considered a hamlet within the parish of Stamford Baron, becoming a separate civil parish once more in 1866.

Historically the parish was part of the Soke of Peterborough, associated with Northamptonshire. Admistratively, it became part of the Stamford rural sanitary district in the 19th century, then later the Barnack Rural District of the administrative county of the Soke, then passing to Huntingdon and Peterborough in 1965 and Cambridgeshire in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972.