Portal:Stamford
Stamford is a town and civil parish within the South Kesteven district of the county of Lincolnshire, England. It is located approximately 100 miles (160 km) to the north of London, on the east side of the A1 road to York and Edinburgh and bestrides the River Welland. 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 seventeent-eighteenth century stone buildings, older timber framed buildings and five medieval parish churches.[2] It is situated on the River Welland, in a south-westerly protrusion of Lincolnshire, between Rutland to the north and west, and Peterborough to the south. It borders Northamptonshire to the south-west at the only point in England where four ceremonial counties meet. Stamford was declared a conservation area in 1967 (the first urban conservation area) and has over 600 listed buildings, more than half of the total for the County of Lincolnshire. In April 1991, the boundary between Lincolnshire and Rutland (then Leicestershire) in the Stamford area was re-arranged[3] and now mostly follows the A1 to the railway line. The conjoined parish of Wothorpe is in the city of Peterborough. Barnack Road is the Lincolnshire/Peterborough boundary where it borders St. Martin's Without. Template:/box-footer Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found.
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