Stamford, Lincolnshire

Stamford is a town on the River Welland in Lincolnshire, England. It is situated in a pointy bit of Lincolnshire, between Rutland to the north and Northamptonshire to the south.

The town originally grew as a Danish base, which by the Middle Ages had became famous for its production of wool and cloth (known as Stamford cloth. Later still, Stamford became an inland port on the Great North Road. Notable buildings in the town include the mediaeval Browne's Hospital and the Elizabethan Burghley House. Because of the large number of surviving listed buildings, the town has been used as a set for television "period" dramatisations.

Stamford was the only one of the five Danelaw boroughs not to become a county town.

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