Talk:Stamford, Lincolnshire

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[edit] Lack of foresight...

I have removed this sentence from the main article as it seems rather POV. The Almighty may be omniscient, but the Church is merely human!

The growth in church congregations in the early twenty-first century pointed up the Church of England's short sightedness in tearing down St Peter's Church in 1560 as surplus to requirements.

[edit] Stamford Mercury, and the almost-built railway

I went to a boarding school in Stamford for a couple of years in the early '90s, and I remember hearing then that:

• The Stamford Mercury is the oldest weekly paper in Britain outside London, dating from about 1640. There's a claim of something like this on the masthead, or was back then anyway.
• The main east coast rail line was planned to pass thru Stamford, and the developers had built a station and a railway hotel (at right angles to the existing branch line) before Lord Burleigh withdrew his consent at the last minute. They hadn't bought the land and there was no way to run the track around the Burleigh estate, so it went to Peterborough instead.

Anyone know if these are true, and has references to write them in? If not I'll have a look myself next week. Moyabrit 22:12, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

I read a similar claim about the paper in the local museum but have no references either. --Asterion^talk 12:09, 22 April 2007 (UTC)