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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 DanelawThe Danelaw (from the Old English Dena lagu was an area of England under the administrative control of the Vikings (or Danes, or Norsemen) from the late 9th century. The term is also used to describe the set of legal terms and definitions established betw boroughA borough is a political division originally used in England. The equivalent, burgh was used in Scotland. Bury often ends towns' names in the South of England, but borough more often in the Midlands. Bury is more common in America's New England — but burgs not to become a county townA county town is the location of the administrative headquarters of a county. In the case of Yorkshire in England, there are three county towns, one for each Riding: Northallerton for the North Riding, Beverley for the East Riding, and Wakefield for the W.

Lying as it does on the main north-south route ( Ermine StreetErmine Street was the Saxon name of a road in England that ran from London to Lincoln and York. It was named for a group called the Earningas who inhabited an area that is now in Cambridgeshire. It is now sometimes called the Old North Road. It followed t the A1This page is about the A1 road in Britain. For other A1 roads, see the disambiguation page at A1. The A1 is the longest numbered British road. Joining London, the capital of England, to Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, it is also known as the Great Nor) from London, several ParliamentAlternative meanings: Parliamentary system, Parliament (band), Parliament (cigarette). A parliament is a legislative body, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system derived from that of the United Kingdom.s were held in Stamford in the middle ages.

The growth in church congregations in the early twenty-first century pointed up the Chuch of England's short sightedness in tearing down St Margaret's Church in 1582 as surplus to requirements.

1 Television shows made on location in Stamford

Middlemarch

2 Films made on location in Stamford

Space (Set in World War II possibly film for TV)