Town in Lincolnshire, England
Human settlement in England
Stamford
is a town and
civil parish
in the
South Kesteven
district of
Lincolnshire
, England. The population at the 2011 census was 19,701
[2]
and estimated at 20,645 in 2019.
[3]
The town has 17th- and 18th-century stone buildings, older timber-framed buildings and five medieval parish churches.
[4]
It is a frequent film location. In 2013 it was rated a top place to live in a survey by
The Sunday Times
.
[5]
Its name has been passed on to
Stamford, Connecticut
, founded in 1641.
[6]
History
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Roman and Medieval Stamford
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The Romans built
Ermine Street
across what is now Burghley Park and forded the River Welland to the west of Stamford, eventually reaching
Lincoln
. They also built a town to the north at
Great Casterton
on the
River Gwash
. In 61 CE
Boudica
followed the Roman legion
Legio IX Hispana
across the river. The
Anglo-Saxons
later chose Stamford as the main town, being on a larger river than the Gwash.
The place-name Stamford is first attested in the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
, where it appears as
Steanford
in 922 and
Stanford
in 942. It appears as
Stanford
in the
Domesday Book
of 1086. The name means "stony ford".
[7]
In 972
King Edgar
made Stamford a borough. The Anglo-Saxons and Danes faced each other across the river.
[8]
The town had grown 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
Five Boroughs of the Danelaw
not to become a
county town
. Initially a pottery centre making
Stamford Ware
, it had gained fame by the
Middle Ages
for its production of the
woollen cloth
known as Stamford cloth or
haberget
, which "In Henry III's reign... was well known in Venice."
[9]
Stamford was a walled town,
[8]
but only a small portion of the wall remains. Stamford became an inland port on the
Great North Road
, the latter superseding Ermine Street in importance. Notable buildings in the town include the medieval
Browne's Hospital
, several churches and the buildings of
Stamford School
, a
public school
founded in 1532.
[8]
A
Norman
castle was built about 1075 and apparently demolished in 1484.
[8]
[10]
[11]
The site stood derelict until the late 20th century, when it was built over and now includes a bus station and a modern housing development. A small part of the curtain wall survives at the junction of Castle Dyke and Bath Row.
In 1333?1334, a group of students and tutors from
Merton
and
Brasenose
colleges, dissatisfied with conditions at the university, left Oxford to found
a rival college at Stamford
. Oxford and Cambridge universities petitioned
Edward III
, and the King ordered the closure of the college and the return of the students to Oxford.
MA
students at Oxford were obliged to take an oath: "You shall also swear that you will not read lectures, or hear them read, at Stamford, as in a University study, or college general." This remained in force until 1827.
[12]
The site and limited remains of the former Brazenose College, Stamford, where Oxford secessionists lived and studied, now form part of Stamford School.
[13]
Stamford has been hosting an annual fair since the
Middle Ages
. It is mentioned in Shakespeare's
Henry IV, Part 2
(Act 3, Scene 2). Held in mid-Lent, it is now the largest street fair in Lincolnshire and among the largest in the country. On 7 March 1190, men at the fair who were preparing to go on the crusade led a
pogrom
, in which several of the Stamford Jews were killed, and the rest, who escaped with difficulty, were given refuge in the castle. Their houses, however, were plundered, and a great quantity of money was seized.
[14]
Religious houses and hospitals
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Stamford's importance and wealth in the Middle Ages meant that a number of religious houses and hospitals were established in or near the town. The monasteries and friaries were all closed at the Dissolution by 1539. Street names are indicative of their presence: Priory Street, Austin Street etc.
Monasteries
- Benedictine
Priory of St Leonard
? certainly established by 1082 with the possibility of it having been founded originally in the 7th century. Part of the church still stands on Priory Road.
[15]
- Priory of Austin Canons at Newstead, just east of Stamford. Originally founded as a hospital at the end of the 12th century it became a priory of Austin Canons in the 1240s.
[15]
- Priory of St Michael ? this was a nunnery established by an
abbot of Peterborough
in or before 1155 in Stamford Baron.
[16]
It was a large establishment for about 40 nuns. In 1354 it was amalgamated with the Augustinian nunnery of Wothorpe which had been depopulated by plague. The
reredorter
is a
Scheduled Monument
.
[17]
Friaries
At least five orders of Friars were established within the town of Stamford from the 13th century onwards.
[15]
- The Austin Friars established in the 1340s in a house near St Peter's Gate on land formerly occupied by the Friars of the Sack. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 the land was eventually bought by the Cecil family of Burghley
- The Dominican Friars probably arrived in the 1230s and were regularly supported with donations by the monarchy. The house was dissolved by 1539.
- The Franciscan Friars had a house -
Greyfriars, Stamford
- in the east suburb near St Paul's gate;
- The Carmelite Friars founded about 1268 in the east part of the town. The friary is said to have been a magnificent structure, famous for its beautiful church
- The Friars of the Sack or Brothers of Penitence ? the sack referred to their clothes, made of sackcloth.
Hospitals
[15]
- Hospital of St John Baptist and St Thomas the Martyr on Stamford Bridge. This hospital was certainly in existence from 1323 until the eve of the Reformation
- Hospital of St Giles This hospital, which was built just outside Stamford as it was intended for lepers and was certainly operating in the 14th century.
- Hospital of All Saints was founded in 1485 by
William Browne
, a wool merchant, for the support of two chaplains, and for the distribution of alms to twelve poor persons, who should pray for the soul of the founder.
Browne's Hospital
is still used for this purpose.
Tudor and Stuart Stamford
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By the early 1500s the wool and broadcloth industry in England, on which Stamford depended, had declined significantly.
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Stamford was sufficiently poor, financially and demographically, that in 1548 it had to amalgamate its eleven parishes into six and its population had reduced to 800.
[19]
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However, by the second half of the 17th century, after almost 150 years of stagnation, the population started to increase. As Stamford emerged into the 17th century, leather and fibre working (in the widest sense; weavers, ropers and tailors) were the main activities along with wood and stone working.
[21]
In the 1660s the various efforts to make the
River Welland
navigable again were finally successful. Stamford then became a centre for the malting trade as the barley from nearby fenlands to the east and heathlands to the north and west could make its way more easily and cheaper to the town.
[22]
The
Great North Road
passed through Stamford. It had always been a halting town for travellers; Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth, James I and Charles I all passed through and it had been a post station for the postal service journey in Elizabeth's reign.
[23]
By the later 17th century roads start to be used more for longer distance travelling. In 1663 an Act of Parliament was passed to set up
turnpikes
on the Great North Road, and this was to make a notable difference to Stamford's fortunes in the following century.
[24]
During the
English Civil War
local loyalties were split. Thomas Hatcher MP was a Parliamentarian. Royalists used Wothorpe and Burghley as defensive positions. In the summer of 1643 the Royalists were besieged at Burghley on 24 July after a defeat at Peterborough on 19 July. The army of
Viscount Campden
was heavily outnumbered and surrendered the following day.
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Bull Run
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For over 600 years Stamford was the site of the
Stamford bull run
, held annually on 13 November,
St Brice
's day, until 1839.
[8]
[26]
Local tradition says it began after
William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey
had seen two bulls fighting in the meadow beneath his castle. Some butchers came to part the combatants and one bull ran into the town. The earl mounted his horse and rode after the animal; he enjoyed the sport so much that he gave the meadow where the fight began to the butchers of Stamford, on condition that they continue to provide a bull to be run in the town every 13 November.
[8]
Victorian period to 21st century
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The
East Coast Main Line
would have gone through Stamford, as an important postal town at the time, but resistance led to routing it instead through
Peterborough
, whose importance and size increased at Stamford's expense.
[27]
During the Second World War, the area round Stamford contained several military sites, including RAF station, airborne encampments and a
prisoner-of-war camp
.
[28]
Within the town, Rock House held the headquarters of
Stanisław Sosabowski
and the staff of the
Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade
. A memorial plaque was unveiled there in 2004.
[29]
A 2,000lb bomb was dropped on St Leonard St on 31 October 1940, which never exploded. 1,000 people were evacuated, until 3 November 1940.
[30]
Stamford Museum
occupied a Victorian building in Broad Street from 1980 until June 2011, when it succumbed to Lincolnshire County Council budget cuts.
[31]
Some exhibits have been moved to a "Discover Stamford" space at the town library
[32]
and to
Stamford Town Hall
.
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Governance
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There are three tiers of local government covering Stamford, at parish (town), district and county level: Stamford Town Council,
South Kesteven District Council
, and
Lincolnshire County Council
. The town council is based at
Stamford Town Hall
on St Mary's Hill, which was built in 1779.
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Administrative history
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Stamford was an
ancient borough
. The original borough was entirely on the north bank of the River Welland, which was historically the boundary between Lincolnshire and
Northamptonshire
.
[36]
South of the river was
Stamford Baron
in Northamptonshire. The Stamford constituency was enlarged in 1832 to also include the built-up part of Stamford Baron.
[37]
In 1836 Stamford was reformed to become a
municipal borough
, at which point the municipal boundaries were adjusted to match the recently enlarged constituency.
[38]
After 1836 the borough therefore straddled Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire. When elected county councils were established in 1889 boroughs were no longer allowed to straddle county boundaries, and so the parts of the borough south of the river were transferred to Lincolnshire, with
Kesteven County Council
serving as the upper tier authority.
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Local government was reformed again in 1974, when Kesteven County Council was replaced by Lincolnshire County Council, and the borough of Stamford was abolished, with district-level functions passing to the new South Kesteven District Council. Stamford Town Council was established as a
successor parish
council in 1974, covering the area of the former borough.
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Stamford's
town council
[41]
has arms:
Per pale dexter side Gules three Lions passant guardant in pale Or and the sinister side chequy Or and Azure
.
[42]
The three lions are the
English royal arms
, granted to the town by Edward IV for its part in the "Lincolnshire Uprising".
[43]
The blue and gold chequers are the arms of the
De Warenne family
, which held the manor here in the 13th century.
Parliamentary representation
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Stamford belongs to the parliamentary constituency of
Grantham and Stamford
. The incumbent is
Gareth Davies
of the
Conservative Party
, who won the seat at the
2019 General Election
. His predecessor,
Nick Boles
, had left the Conservatives in March 2019.
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Geography
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Stamford, on the bank of the
River Welland
, forms a south-westerly protrusion of Lincolnshire between
Rutland
to the north and west,
Peterborough
to the south, and
Northamptonshire
to the south-west. There have been mistaken claims of a
quadripoint
where four
ceremonial counties
? Rutland, Lincolnshire,
Cambridgeshire
and Northamptonshire ? would meet at a point
[46]
but the location actually has two
tripoints
some 20 metres (22 yd) apart.
[47]
The
River Welland
forms the border between two historic counties: Lincolnshire to the north and
Soke of Peterborough
in Northamptonshire to the south.
In 1991, the boundary between Lincolnshire and Rutland (then part of
Leicestershire
) in the Stamford area was redrawn.
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It 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
.
The river downstream of the town bridge and some of the meadows fall within the drainage area of the Welland and Deepings
Internal Drainage Board
.
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Geology
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Much of Stamford is built on Middle Jurassic
Lincolnshire limestone
, with mudstones and sandstones.
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The area is known for limestone and slate quarries. Cream-coloured
Collyweston stone slate
is found on the roofs of many Stamford stone buildings. Stamford Stone in
Barnack
has quarries at
Marholm
and
Holywell
.
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Clipsham Stone has two quarries in
Clipsham
.
Palaeontology
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In 1968, a specimen of the
sauropod
dinosaur
Cetiosaurus
oxoniensis
was found in the Williamson Cliffe Quarry, close to
Great Casterton
in adjacent
Rutland
. Some 15 metres (49 ft) long, it is about 170 million years old, from the
Aalenian
or
Bajocian
era of the
Jurassic
period.
[52]
It is one of the most complete dinosaur skeletons found in the UK and was installed in 1975 in the
Leicester Museum & Art Gallery
.
Economy
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Tourism is important to Stamford's economy, as are professional law and accountancy firms. Health, education and other public-service employers also feature, notably a hospital, a large medical general practice, schools (some independent) and a further education college. Hospitality is provided by several hotels, licensed premises, restaurants, tea rooms and cafes.
The licensed premises reflect the history of the town. The
George Hotel
,
Lord Burghley
,
William Cecil
,
Danish Invader
and
Jolly Brewer
are among nearly 30 premises serving
real ale
.
[53]
Surrounding villages and Rutland Water provide other venues and employment opportunities, as do several annual events at Burghley House.
Retail
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The town centre's major retail and service sector has many independent boutique stores and draws shoppers from a wide area. Several streets are traffic-free. Outlets include gift shops, eateries, men's and women's outfitters, shoe shops, florists, hairdressers, beauty therapists and acupuncture and health-care services. Harrison Dunn, Dawson of Stamford, the
George Hotel
and The Crown Arts Centre are other popular places. Stamford has several hotels, coffee shops and restaurants. Its branch of the national jeweller
F. Hinds
can trace its history back to the clockmaker Joseph Hinds, who worked in Stamford in the first half of the 19th century.
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In the summer months, Stamford Meadows attract visitors.
The town has stores, supermarkets, three builders' merchants and several other specialist trade outlets and skilled trades such as roofers, builders, tilers etc. There are two car showrooms and a number of car-related businesses. Local services include convenience stores, post offices, newsagents and take-aways.
Engineering
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South of the town is
RAF Wittering
, a main employer which was
until 2011
the home of the
Harrier
. The base opened in 1916 as
RFC
Stamford. It closed in 1919, but reopened in 1924 under its present name.
The engineering company, largely closed since June 2018, is
Cummins Generator Technologies
(formerly Newage Lyon, then Newage International), a maker of
electrical generators
in
Barnack
Road.
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C & G Concrete (now part of Breedon Aggregates)
[56]
is in Uffington Road.
The Pick Motor Company
was founded in Stamford in about 1898. A number of smaller firms ? welders, printers and so forth ? feature in collections of industrial units or more traditional premises in older, mixed-use parts of the town.
Blackstone & Co
was a
farm implement
and
diesel engine
manufacturing company.
Stamford lies amidst some of England's richest farmland and close to the famous "double-cropping" land of parts of the fens. Agriculture still provides a small, but steady number of jobs in farming, agricultural machinery, distribution and ancillary services.
Media and publishing
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The
Stamford Mercury
claims to be "Britain's oldest continuously published newspaper title".
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The
Mercury
has been published since 1712 but its
masthead
formerly claimed it was established in 1695 and still has "Britain's Oldest Newspaper".
Local radio provision was shared between Peterborough's
Heart East
(102.7 ?
Heart Peterborough
closed in July 2010) and
Greatest Hits Radio Midlands
(formerly
Rutland Radio
) (a 97.4 transmitter on
Little Casterton
Road) from
Oakham
. Since March 2021, Rutland and Stamford Sound has been providing a locally based service via the internet. Other stations include
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
(95.7 from
Peterborough
),
BBC Radio Northampton
(103.6 from
Corby
) and
BBC Radio Lincolnshire
(94.9). NOW Digital broadcasts from an East
Casterton
transmitter covering the town and
Spalding
, which provides the
NOW Peterborough
12D multiplex (BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and Heart East).
Local news and television programmes are provided by
BBC East Midlands
and
ITV Central
. Stamford has a lower-power television relay transmitter, due to it being in a valley,
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which takes its transmission from
Waltham
, not
Belmont
.
BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
and
ITV Yorkshire
can be received from the Belmont transmitting station.
Local publishers include
Key Publishing
(aviation) and the
Bourne Publishing Group
(pets).
Old Glory
, a specialist magazine for steam power and
traction engines
, was published in Stamford.
Landmarks
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Stamford was the first
conservation area
designated in
England and Wales
,
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[62]
under the Civic Amenities Act 1967.
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There are over 600
listed buildings
in and around the town.
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Significant unlisted properties include the
Corn Exchange
in Broad Street which was completed in 1859.
[65]
The
Industrial Revolution
left Stamford largely untouched. Much of the centre was built in the 17th and 18th centuries in Jacobean or Georgian style.
[8]
It is marked by streets of timber-framed and stone buildings using local
limestone
and by little shops tucked down back alleys. Several former
coaching inns
survive, their large doorways being a feature. The main shopping area was pedestrianised in the 1970s.
Near Stamford (but in the historical
Soke of Peterborough
) is
Burghley House
, an
Elizabethan
mansion, built by the First Minister of
Elizabeth I
, Sir William Cecil, later
Lord Burghley
.
[8]
It is the ancestral seat of the
Marquess of Exeter
. The tomb of William Cecil is in St Martin's Church, Stamford. The parkland of the Burghley Estate adjoins the town on two sides. Another country house near Stamford,
Tolethorpe Hall
, hosts outdoor theatre productions by the
Stamford Shakespeare Company
.
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Tobie Norris had a
bell foundry
in the town in the 17th century. His name is borne by a pub in St Paul's Street.
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Transport
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Road
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Lying on the main north?south
Ermine Street
, the
Great North Road
, and the
A1
) from
London
to York and Edinburgh, Stamford hosted several
Parliaments
in the Middle Ages. The
George Hotel
,
Bull and Swan
,
Crown
and
London Inn
were well-known
coaching inns
. The town coped with heavy north?south traffic through its narrow streets until 1960, when a bypass was built to the west of the town.
[68]
The old route is now the
B1081
. There is only one road bridge over the Welland, excluding the A1: a local bottleneck.
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Until 1996 there were plans to upgrade the bypass to
motorway
standard, but these have been shelved. The Carpenter's Lodge roundabout south of the town has been replaced by a grade-separated junction.
[70]
The old A16, now the
A1175
(Uffington Road) to
Market Deeping
, meets the northern end of the
A43
(Kettering Road) in the south of the town.
Footbridges cross the Welland at the Meadows, some 200 metres upstream of the Town Bridge, and at the Albert Bridge 250 metres downstream.
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The
Jurassic Way
runs from
Banbury
to Stamford. The
Hereward Way
runs through the town from Rutland to the
Peddars Way
in
Norfolk
, along the Roman
Ermine Street
and then the
River Nene
. The
Macmillan Way
heads through the town, finishing at
Boston
.
Torpel Way
follows the railway line, entering Peterborough at
Bretton
.
Rail
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Railway lines in Stamford
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The town is served by
Stamford railway station
, previously Stamford Town to distinguish it from the now closed
Stamford East station
in Water Street. The station building is a stone structure in
Mock Tudor
style, influenced by nearby
Burghley House
and designed by
Sancton Wood
.
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The station has direct services to
Leicester
,
Birmingham
and
Stansted Airport
(via
Cambridge
) on the
Birmingham to Peterborough Line
.
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CrossCountry
operates most services as part of their Birmingham?Stansted Airport route. Trains to and from Peterborough pass through a short tunnel beneath St Martin's High Street.
Buses
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The town bus station occupies part of the old castle site in St Peter's Hill.
[74]
The main routes are to
Peterborough
via
Helpston
or
Wansford
and to
Oakham
,
Grantham
,
Uppingham
and
Bourne
. There are less frequent services to
Peterborough
by other routes.
Delaine Buses
services terminate at its depot in North Street. Other active operators include CentreBus, Blands and Peterborough Council.
On Sundays and Bank Holidays from 16 May 2010, there have been five journeys to Peterborough operated by Peterborough City Council on routes via Wittering/
Wansford
, Duddington/Wansford,
Burghley House
/
Barnack
/
Helpston
and Uffington/Barnack/Helpston. There is a
National Express
coach service between
London
and
Nottingham
each day, including Sundays. Route maps and timetables appear on
Lincolnshire County Council's website
.
Waterways
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Commercial shipping was carried along a canal from Market Deeping to warehouses in Wharf Road until the 1850s.
[8]
This is no longer possible, due to abandonment of the canal and the shallowness of the river above
Crowland
. There is a lock at the sluice in
Deeping St James
, but it is not in use. The river was not conventionally navigable upstream of the Town Bridge.
Education
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Stamford has five state primary schools: Bluecoat, St Augustine's (RC), St George's, St Gilbert's and Malcolm Sargent, and the independent Stamford Junior School, a co-educational school for children aged two to eleven.
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The one state secondary school is
Stamford Welland Academy
(formerly Stamford Queen Eleanor School), formed in the late 1980s from the town's two comprehensive schools: Fane and Exeter. It became an
academy
in 2011. In April 2013, a group of parents announced an intention to establish a
Free School
in the town,
[76]
but failed to receive government backing. Instead, the multi-academy trust that submitted the bid was invited to take over the running of the existing school.
[77]
Stamford School
and
Stamford High School
are long-established independent schools with about 1,500 pupils between them. Stamford School for boys was founded in 1532, the High School for girls in 1877. They have run co-educational classes in the sixth form since 2000. Together with Stamford Junior School, they form the Stamford Endowed Schools.
[78]
Most of Lincolnshire still has grammar schools. In Stamford, their place was long filled by a form of the
Assisted Places Scheme
, providing state funding to send children to one of two independent schools in the town that were formerly
direct-grant grammars
.
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The national scheme was abolished by the 1997 Labour government. The Stamford arrangements remained in place as a protracted transitional arrangement. In 2008, the council decided no new places could be funded and the arrangement ended in 2012. The rest of South Kesteven, apart from Market Deeping, has the selective system.
Other secondary pupils travel to
Casterton College
or further afield to
The Deepings School
or
Bourne Grammar School
.
New College Stamford
offers post-16 further education: work-based, vocational and academic; and higher education courses including BA degrees in art and design awarded by the
University of Lincoln
and teaching-related courses awarded by
Bishop Grosseteste University
.
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The college also offers a range of informal adult learning.
Churches
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In the 2011 Census, less than 67 per cent of the population of Stamford identified themselves as Christian, over 25 per cent as of "no religion".
Stamford has many current or former churches:
[8]
- All Saints' Church
on Red Lion Square
- Christ Church, Green Lane
- Stamford and District Community Church (ceased to meet)
- Stamford Free Church (Baptist), Kesteven Road
- St George's Church
in St George's Square
- St John the Baptist
- St Leonard's Priory
- St Mary's Church
on St Mary's Street
- St Mary and St Augustine
(Roman Catholic), on Broad Street
- St Martin's Church
on High Street, St Martin's
- St Michael the Greater
, High Street (now converted as shops)
- St Paul's Church
(now the chapel of Stamford School)
- Strict Baptist Chapel, North Street
- Salvation Army, East Street (now demolished; the congregation worships elsewhere)
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Hillside House, Tinwell Road
- Stamford Methodist Church, Barn Hill (also known as Trinity Methodist Church)
- United Reformed Church
, on Star Lane
Filming location
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Television shows
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Films
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Notable residents
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In alphabetical order by section. References appear on each person's page.
Arts and broadcasting
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]
- Michael Asher
(born 1953), FRSL, author and explorer
- Torben Betts
(born 1968), playwright
- Nelson Dawson
(1859?1941), artist
- Colin Dexter
(1930?2017), author, creator of Inspector Morse
- Rae Earl
(born 1971), author and broadcaster
- Lady Angela Forbes
(1876?1950), novelist and First World War forces sweetheart
- Andrew Lycett
(born 1948), biographer
- James Mayhew
(born 1964), writer and illustrator of children's books
- Mahomet Thomas Phillips
(1876-1943), Anglo/Congolese sculptor and carver
- Wilfrid Wood
(1888?1976), artist
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Business
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]
- John Drakard
(c. 1775?1854), newspaper proprietor
- Arthur Kitson
(1859?1937), managing director of Kitson Empire Lighting Company and monetary theorist
Crime
[
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]
Government and armed forces
[
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]
Performance
[
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]
- Sarah Cawood
(born 1972), television presenter
- James Bradshaw
(born 1976) stage and television actor
- Tom Davis
, actor and comedian
- Tom Ford
, broadcaster and presenter of
5th Gear
- Colin Furze
(born 1979), YouTube personality, twice a
Guinness World Record
holder
- David Jackson
(born 1947), progressive rock saxophonist, flautist and composer
- Nicola Roberts
(born 1985), singer, best known as a member of
Girls Aloud
- George Robinson
(born 1997), actor
- Sir Malcolm Sargent
(1895?1967), conductor
- Sir Michael Tippett
(1905?1998), composer
Scholarship
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- Harry Burton
(1879?1940), Egyptologist and archaeological photographer
- Robert of Ketton
(с. 1110 ? с. 1160), medieval theologian, the first European translator of the
Quran
.
Sports
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- David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter
(Lord Burghley till 1956; 1905?1981), politician,
Governor of Bermuda
, and
Gold Medal
-winning
hurdler
at
1928 Summer Olympics
- Malcolm Christie
(born 1979), former professional footballer
- Darren Ferguson
(born 1972), manager of
Peterborough United
, son of
Alex Ferguson
- Thomas Goodrich
(1823?1885), cricketer
- David Norris
(born 1981), former professional footballer
- Paul Rawden
(born 1973), former cricketer
- M. J. K. Smith
(born 1933), captain of
England cricket team
and last English double international (cricket and rugby), attended Stamford School.
Sport
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]
There are a number of junior teams in each age group and also school teams.
Rugby teams
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- Stamford College Old Boys R.F.C.
- Stamford College Rugby Team
- Stamford Rugby Club
Cricket teams
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Festivals and events
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See also
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References
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"Stamford Town Council"
.
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"All Saints ? UK Census Data 2011"
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"Stamford Conservation Area Draft Appraisal"
South Kesteven Council.
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"The winners: Our four top spots"
.
The Sunday Times
. 17 March 2013. Archived from
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on 2 May 2014
. Retrieved
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2013
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The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly
. Connecticut Magazine Company. 1903. p. 334.
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Eilert Ekwall
,
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names
, p. 436.
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e
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Trevelyan, G M (1944).
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. p. 35.
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"Stamford Castle"
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www.roffe.co.uk
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Historic England
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Michael Beloff
,
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, p. 15.
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B. L. Deed,
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"8".
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Joan Thirsk
1984 The Rural Economy of England Collected Essays, XVII Stamford in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries p.310 The Hambledon Press
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Peter Clark and Paul Slack English Towns in Transition 1976 p25 OUP
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Joan Thirsk
1984 The Rural Economy of England Collected Essays, XVII Stamford in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries p.313-4 The Hambledon Press
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Joan Thirsk
1984 The Rural Economy of England Collected Essays, XVII Stamford in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries pp.317 and 321 The Hambledon Press
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Joan Thirsk
1984 The Rural Economy of England Collected Essays, XVII Stamford in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries p312-3 The Hambledon Press
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. Imperial War Museum.
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Monday 10 December 1945, page 3
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"Stamford Museum to close"
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"Town Hall ? Stamford Town Council"
.
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2018
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"Contact us"
.
Stamford Town Council
. Retrieved
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2023
.
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Historic England
.
"Town Hall (1306544)"
.
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2021
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. Retrieved
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.
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Municipal Corporations Act 1835
. p. 458
. Retrieved
30 November
2023
.
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Local Government Act 1888
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"The Local Government (Successor Parishes) Order 1973"
,
legislation.gov.uk
,
The National Archives
, SI 1973/1110
, retrieved
30 November
2023
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"Town Councillors"
.
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"CIVIC HERALDRY OF ENGLAND AND WALES-LINCOLNSHIRE"
.
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.
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Crowther-Beynon, V. B. (1911). Mansel Sympson, E. (ed.).
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. Retrieved
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2019
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Alt URL
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"Find MPs - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament"
.
members.parliament.uk
.
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"Am I still conservative?"
. Nick Boles.
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In minutes and seconds, 52 38' 25
north and 0 29' 4
west.
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"A real quadripoint?"
. blanchflower.org.
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"The Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire (County Boundaries) Order 1991"
.
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"Welland and Deepings IDB"
.
- ^
Geological Survey of England and Wales: Stamford
. British Geological Survey. 1957.
- ^
"Natural Stone suppliers of Limestone & Masonry ? Stamford Stone"
.
Stamford Stone Company
.
- ^
"1968 Williamson Cliffe brick-pit, Rutland: Late/Upper Bajocian, United Kingdom"
. The Paleobiology Database.
- ^
Stamford Town Pub Map
(PDF)
(Issue 04 ed.). UK Pub Maps Ltd. March 2011.
- ^
"Our History"
.
www.fhinds.co.uk
.
- ^
"Cummins generators"
.
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"Breedon Group ? Largest Independent Construction Materials Group"
.
www.candgconcrete.co.uk
.
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"The Rutland & Stamford Mercury"
. Archived from
the original
on 20 April 2008.
- ^
Stamford transmitter
Archived
30 March 2012 at the
Wayback Machine
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Brown, Mike.
"mb21 ? The Transmission Gallery"
.
tx.mb21.co.uk
.
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"Stamford (Lincolnshire, England) Freeview Light transmitter"
. May 2004.
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"First Conservation Area"
.
Stamford Civic Society
. Retrieved
4 July
2018
.
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"The First Conservation Area"
.
Heritage Calling
. 19 September 2017
. Retrieved
4 July
2018
.
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"Civic Amenities Act 1967"
.
www.legislation.gov.uk
. Expert Participation
. Retrieved
4 July
2018
.
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.
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"Corn Exchange"
. Theatres Trust
. Retrieved
16 July
2023
.
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"Tolethorpe Hall"
. Stamford Shakespeare Company.
- ^
"tobienorris.com ? LCN.com"
.
www.tobienorris.com
.
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"Cinema Newsreel on opening of A1 Stamford Bypass by Minister of Transport Ernest Marples"
.
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(Map) (A2- ed.). 1:25 000. OS Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 27 November 2008.
ISBN
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.
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.
"Stamford Station (499042)"
.
Research records (formerly PastScape)
. Retrieved
20 August
2009
.
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"East Midland Trains routemap"
. Retrieved
1 July
2021
.
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Stamford bus station, St Peters Hill, Town Centre, Stamford, PE9 2PE
TF028070
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"Independent Schools For Independent Minds | Stamford Endowed Schools"
.
Stamford Schools
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.
stamfordmercury.co.uk
.
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"Stamford Mercury"
.
stamfordmercury.co.uk
.
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"Stamford Endowed Schools"
. Retrieved
4 July
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.
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"Last stronghold of assisted pupils faces legal threat"
by Julie Henry,
The Daily Telegraph
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"Part of the Inspire Education Group"
.
Stamford College
.
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Stamford Heritage,
"Stamford Arts Centre"
Archived
6 June 2014 at the
Wayback Machine
,
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. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
- ^
"Welcome"
. Burghley Park Cricket Club.
- ^
"Stamford International Music Festival | 15th - 17th May 2020"
.
Stamford International Music Festival
.
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"Stamford Diversity Festival"
.
Rutland and Stamford Sound
.
- ^
"Lazy Crow Music Festival"
.
Lazy Crow
.
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Retrieved 26 September 2019
Further reading
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- South Lincolnshire Archaeology
, no. 1 (Stamford: South Lincolnshire Archaeology Unit, 1977)
- Coles, Ken (February 1980).
"Queen Eleanor's Cross"
.
The Stamford Historian
. Stamford research group. Archived from
the original
on 19 February 2014
. Retrieved
3 April
2013
.
- Drakard, John (1822).
The History of Stamford, in the County of Lincoln: Comprising Its Ancient, Progressive, and Modern State: with an Account of St. Martin's, Stamford Baron, and Great and Little Wothorpe, Northamptonshire
. J. Drakard.
- Edwards, Samuel, ed. (1810).
Extracts taken from Harod's history of Stamford: relating to the navigation of the River Welland from Stamford to the Sea
. Stamford.
- John S. Hartley and Alan Rogers (1974),
The Religious Foundations of Medieval Stamford
, Stamford Survey Group,
2
. Nottingham: Department of Adult Education, University of Nottingham
- Kathy Kilmurry (1980),
The Pottery Industry of Stamford, Lincs., c. AD 850?1250
, British Archaeological Reports,
84
. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports
- C. M. Mahany (1978),
Stamford: Castle and Town
. South Lincolnshire Archaeology,
2
. Stamford: South Lincolnshire Archaeological Unit
- Christine Mahany, Alan Burchard and Gavin Simpson (1982),
Excavations in Stamford, Lincolnshire, 1963?1969
, The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series,
9
. London: Society for Medieval Archaeology
- Mahany, C. M.; Roffe, D. R. (1983). "Stamford: The Development of an Anglo-Scandinavian Borough".
Anglo-Norman Studies
.
5
: 199?219.
- Page, William, ed. (1906).
A History of the County of Lincoln
. Victoria County History. Vol. 2. pp. 234?235 "Hospitals: Stamford".
- Page, William, ed. (1906).
A History of the County of Lincoln
. Victoria County History. Vol. 2. pp. 225?230 "Friaries: Stamford".
- Plowman, Aubrey (1980).
"Stamford and the Plague, 1604"
.
The Stamford Historian
. Stamford research group. Archived from
the original
on 23 April 2013
. Retrieved
3 April
2013
.
- Roffe, D. R. (1981).
Stamford: Its Origins and Growth
. Stamford: South Lincolnshire Archaeological Unit.
- Roffe, D. R.; Mahany, C. M. (1986). "Stamford and the Norman Conquest".
Lincolnshire History and Archaeology
.
21
: 5?9.
- Roffe, D. R. (1987). "Walter Dragun's Town? Lord and Burghal Community in Thirteenth-Century Stamford".
Lincolnshire History and Archaeology
.
22
: 43?46.
- Roffe, D. R. (1994).
Stamford in the Thirteenth Century: Two Inquisitions from the Reign of Edward I
. Stamford: Paul Watkins.
- Rogers, Alan, ed. (1965).
The Making of Stamford
. Leicester: Leicestershire University Press.
- Rogers, Alan (2001) [1983].
the Book of Stamford
. Barracuda Books
1983 edn.
; Spiegl Press, Stamford
2001 edn.
.
ISBN
0-86023-123-2
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- Thomas, D. L. (1982).
"The Cecil Monopoly of Milling in Stamford 1561?1640"
.
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. Stamford research group. Archived from
the original
on 24 April 2013
. Retrieved
3 April
2013
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- Thoresby Jones, Percy (1960).
The Story of the Parish Churches of Stamford
. British Publishing Co.
- Till, E C.
"St Cuthbert's Fee in Stamford"
.
The Stamford Historian
. Stamford research group
. Retrieved
3 April
2013
.
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