is a
Town on the
River Welland in
Lincolnshire ,
England . It is situated in a protrusion of Lincolnshire, between
Rutland to the north and west, and
Cambridgeshire to the south. It borders
Northamptonshire to the south-west at the only point in England where
Four Counties Meet .
The town originally grew as a is built from), little shops tucked down back alleys, and without the traffic and street furniture it would be difficult to tell what century you were in.
Also lying near Stamford (actually in the
Peterborough unitary authority) is
Burghley House , an
Elizabethan mansion, vast and beautifully decorative, designed by the master architect
William Cecil .
Stamford was the only one of the five
Danelaw Borough s not to become a
County Town .
Lying as it does on the main north-south route ( is hidden away between Wothorpe Road and the Welland.
The oldest newspaper in England is the
Stamford Mercury . Local radio is provided mainly by
Rutland Radio (the 97.4 transmitter is on
Little Casterton Road, then there is also the BBC's
Cambridgeshire (95.7 from
Peterborough ),
Northampton (103.6 from
Corby ) and
Lincolnshire (94.9).
South of the town is regulators for
Electrical Generator s, is based on
Barnack Road.
- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
- William Cecil, Lord Burghley
- David Cecil, Lord Burghley, Olympic Hurdler
- Sir Michael Tippett
- Colin Dexter
- Daniel Lambert
- Sir Malcolm Sargent
- Iwan Thomas
- General , GCB , CBE , DSO , ADC Gen , ABC , DEF
- Robert Of Ketton , Medieval theologian, first translator of the Qu'ran
