Stamford, Lincolnshire - filming Middlemarch in St. George's Square - postcard

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Stamford and Middlemarch - filming the BBC classic serial July & August, 1993 - Market Day in Middlemarch. St. George's Square
• Publisher:  Lincolnshire County Council
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Stamford is a town and civil parish on the River Welland in the South Kesteven district of the county of Lincolnshire, England. It is 92 miles (148 km) north of London, on the east side of the A1 road to York and Edinburgh. The resident population at the 2001 census was 21,800,^[1] including the adjacent parish of St Martin's Without.

The town is best known for its medieval core of 17th–18th century stone buildings, older timber framed buildings and five medieval parish churches.^[2]

Stamford was the first conservation area to be designated in England and Wales under the Civic Amenities Act 1967. Since then the whole of the old town and St Martin's has been made an outstanding area of architectural or historic interest that is of national importance. Therefore there is much interest in its vibrant local history.

In June 1968, a specimen of the sauropod dinosaur Cetiosaurus oxoniensis was found by Bill Boddington in the Williamson Cliffe Quarry, close to Great Casterton. It was calculated to be around 170 million years old, from the Aalenian or Bajocian part of the Jurassic period.^[3] The Rutland Dinosaur is one of the most complete dinosaur skeletons found in the UK, being fifteen metres long, and since 1975 has been in the New Walk Museum in Leicester.

The Stamford Museum was in a Victorian building in Broad Street from 1980 to 2011. In June 2011 the Museum closed because of Lincolnshire County Council cuts.^[4] Some of the former exhibits have been relocated to the Discover Stamford area at the town's Library. ^[5]

The Romans built Ermine Street across what is now Burghley Park and through the middle of the town, where it forded the Welland, eventually reaching Lincoln; they built a town to the north at Great Casterton on the River Gwash. In AD 61 Boudica followed the Roman 9th Legion (Legio IX Hispana) across the river. The Anglo-Saxons later chose Stamford as their main town, being on a more important river than the Gwash.

In 972 King Edgar made Stamford a borough. The Anglo-Saxons and Danes faced each other across the river.^[6] The town originally grew as a Danish settlement at the lowest point that the Welland could be crossed by ford or bridge. Stamford was the only one of the Danelaw Five Burghs (""boroughs"") not to become a county town. Initially a pottery centre, producing Stamford Ware, by the Middle Ages it had become famous for its production of wool and the woollen cloth known as Stamford cloth - which ""In Henry III's reign ... was well known in Venice"".^[7] There was an example of this cloth, also called haberget, in Stamford Museum. Stamford was a walled town^[6] but only a very small portion of the walls now remain. Stamford became an inland port on the Great North Road that superseded the Roman road Ermine Street, which passes near the town, where it forded the River Welland. Notable buildings in the town include the mediaeval Browne's Hospital, several churches and the buildings of Stamford School, a public school founded in 1532.^[6]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=lincolnshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted