Stamford

Stamford is an interesting old town, partly in Lincolnshire and partly in Northamptonshire, in England on the Welland, 12 miles West-North-West of Peterborough. It was one of the five Danish burghs, and is described in Domesday Book. A massacre of Jews occurred here in 1140, and in Plantagenet times it was a place of ecclesiastical, parliamentary, and royal importance. It figures in the Wars of the Roses and the Civil War of Charles I's time. It has three fine Early English churches, a corn exchange, two handsome schools, Browne's Hospital, founded in Richard III's reign, and Burghley House, a noble specimen of Renaissance architecture. The Stamford Mercury (1695) is the earliest provincial newspaper. The district is mainly agricultural.

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