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Stamford is a town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.The population at the 2011 census was 19,701 [3] and estimated at 20,645 in 2019. [4]
Stamford railway station serves the town of Stamford in Lincolnshire, England, and is located in St Martin's.The station is 12.5 miles (20 km) west of Peterborough.It was opened by the Syston and Peterborough Railway, part of the present day Birmingham to Peterborough Line.
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine Lincolnshire with Leicestershire and Rutland in a sub-region of the East Midlands region, creating one additional seat by re-establishing the constituency of Rutland and Stamford, spanning all three ...
South Kesteven is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. Its council is based in Grantham.The district also includes the towns of Bourne, Market Deeping and Stamford, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.
Hand-drawn map of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire from 1576. During pre-Roman times, most of Lincolnshire was inhabited by the Corieltauvi people. [citation needed] The language of the area at that time would have been Common Brittonic, the precursor to modern Welsh. The name Lincoln was derived from Lindum Colonia. [citation needed]
Rutland and Stamford is a county constituency comprising the area of Lincolnshire centred on the town of Stamford; the county of Rutland; and also parts of rural Leicestershire, making it a very unusual parliamentary constituency in that it spans three counties.
Stamford was a constituency in the county of Lincolnshire of the House of Commons for the Parliament of England to 1706 then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918.
Stamford East railway station was the Stamford and Essendine Railway station in Water Street, Stamford, Lincolnshire. [1] The line was worked by the Great Northern Railway but retained its independence until 1886, when the GNR took the line on perpetual lease.