Peterborough Karate

Peterborough is a church city and unitary power area in the East of England, for ceremonial purposes it is in the county of Cambridge shire.

The Town Hall is 75 miles north of London at Charing Cross. The city is located on the River Nene, which flows into the North Sea approximately 30 miles to the north-east.

The local countryside is notoriously flat and low-lying, and in some places lies below sea level. The area known as the Fens falls to the east of Peterborough.

The City of Peterborough includes the outlying settlement at RAF Wittering, and as a unitary authority borders Northampton shire and Rutland to the west, Lincolnshire to the north, and Cambridge shire to the south and east.

Human agreement in the area dates back to before the Bronze Age, as can be seen at the Flag Fen archaeological site to the east of the current city centre. This site also shows evidence of Roman occupation. The Saxon period saw the organization of an abbey, which later became Peterborough Cathedral.

The people grew rapidly following the arrival of the railways in the nineteenth century, and Peterborough became an industrial centre, particularly noted for its brick manufacture.

 
     
 
 
 
 
     
 
Karate is a soldierly art developed in the Ryukyu Islands from original fighting methods and Chinese kenpo. It is primarily a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands and ridge-hands. Grappling, locks, restraints, throws, and vital point strikes are taught in some styles. A karate practitioner is called a karateka.