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Extract from the Stamford Travel Guides:
STAMFORD
, some thirty miles south of Heckington, is delightful, a handsome little limestone town of yellow-grey seventeenth- and eighteenth-century buildings edging narrow streets that slope up from the River Welland. It was here that the Romans forded this important river, establishing a fortified outpost that the Danes subsequently selected for one of their regional capitals. Later the town became a centre of the medieval wool and cloth trade, its wealthy merchants funding a series of almshouses known as
"callises"
- after Calais, the English-occupied port through which most of them traded. Stamford was also the...
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