At Nene Valley Firewood, we supply top-quality kiln-dried logs with free delivery and stacking across Peterborough and surrounding villages. Whether you’re in town or tucked away in the Cambridgeshire countryside, our local team delivers straight to your door—fast, friendly, and five-star rated. Keep your home warm with sustainably sourced wood, dried and ready to burn.

We also offer free delivery to all of the local areas around Peterborough including Yaxley, Whittlesey, Sawtry, Folks worth or Wansford. Whether you live near Beeby’s West lake, close to the Peterborough Cathedral in the city center, or near English Heritage – Long Thorpe Tower, we’ll bring your logs right to your door.

You might’ve seen our delivery vans near Central Park, Peterborough City Market, or out on the A1. Whether you’re in a Victorian terrace near the city centre or a rural farmhouse on the outskirts, we’re here to keep your firewood topped up all year round.

Send us a picture of one of our vans in Peterborough and we’ll add some free firelighters to your next order!

Peterborough’s historic relationship with wood and fire stretches back millennia, from prehistoric causeways to medieval abbey flames and pioneering fire brigades.

Wood: Bronze Age Engineering & Ancient Forestry

Flag Fen Causeway (c. 900–1400 BC): This remarkable Bronze Age structure used over 60,000 wooden timbers, mostly alder, willow, later oak, to build a 1 km-long causeway linking islands across the Fen Some of these original timbers survive in situ. A reconstruction enables visitors to walk the path of ancient people today.

Ancient woodlands: Modern reserves like Thorpe Wood and Grimeshaw Wood preserve medieval forestry around Peterborough, oak, ash, hazel coppices, maintained centuries through traditional management.

Fire: Abbey Flames, Volunteer Brigade & Industrial Blazes

Medieval & Abbey Fires: 1116 blaze at Peterborough Abbey, triggered by an unattended bakehouse fire, consumed the monastery and much of the town on 4 August. Chroniclers recorded that “all the minster… burned… most of the town burned” .Earlier in 1070, Viking and rebel attacks, led by Hereward the Wake, burned buildings and inner structures of the abbey.

Volunteer & Professional Firefighting

Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade founded in 1884 after a serious fire at the City Infirmary, remains one of only two unpaid volunteer brigades in the UK today . Over the decades, they’ve tackled major incidents including fires at Peterborough Cathedral (2001), the Greyhound Stadium (1999), and tragic industrial blazes like the Quaker Oats factory fire of 1916, which killed 24 workers. “Taking time to remember the names of the workers lost in the Quaker Oats fire on December 11th, 1916…”

Final Thoughts

Peterborough’s story with wood begins in the Bronze Age, where impressive wooden engineering still resonates through Flag Fen’s causeway. Later, natural forests around the city remain living echoes of medieval woodland practices. The thread with fire is equally woven, `from abbey conflagrations triggered by ovens or raiders, to a Victorian-era volunteer fire brigade that endures today. Together, these strands illustrate a powerful interplay: wood shaping Peterborough’s infrastructure and identity, and fire prompting rebuilding, community resilience, and modern safety institutions.