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Looking upstream from Essex Bridge, the Trent is here being joined by two arms of the Sow, flowing in from Stafford.

College takes its name from an ancient brass door knocker which, some sources suggest, was brought back here in 1890 after it had been removed by rebellious students to another college, Brasenose Hall, at Stamford

Clearly health care was a more peaceful business in the 1920s; today the gardens have disappeared under a mass of wards and car parking belonging to the Stamford and Rutland Infirmary.

In 1737 a Stafford mercer, John Stevenson, started a bank, one of the earliest outside London.

The left-hand one – the 'Stafford' – sports its Fellows, Morton & Clayton livery, a company that stopped trading when the canals were nationalised in 1948.

Clearly health care was a more peaceful business in the 1920s; today the gardens have disappeared under a mass of wards and car parking belong- ing to the Stamford and Rutland Infirmary.

At the Stamford Road end of the street, the newly-built showroom of Tutty's sold kitchen units and appliances. Newman's next door was an old-fashioned ironmongers, which has resisted change.

The left hand one - the 'Stafford' - sports its Fellows, Morton & Clayton livery, a company that stopped trading when the canals were nationalised in 1948.

It is another of the village churches built of the limestone from the ridge that acts as a spine all the way through Lincolnshire from Stamford up to the river Humber.

The inn is well placed near the busy Stamford Road. Once a coal business and a shoemaker's, it acquired its name from the last occupation - the Boot and Shoe Inn.

Positioned alongside the old course of the Great North Road, the unusual and impressive 'Bottle Lodges' at the entrance to Burghley Park must have been a familiar sight to travellers approaching Stamford

The left-hand one – the 'Stafford' – sports its Fellows, Morton & Clayton livery, a company that stopped trading when the canals were nationalised in 1948.

There was also a connecting line from Stone to Norton Bridge, on the LNWR route between Crewe and Stafford. Stone closed to goods traffic in 1967.

Gloucester man John Stafford Smith composed 'The Star Spangled Banner', which is why the flag of the USA flies from the cathedral every day.

It was built in 1848-49 by the North Staffordshire Railway Company (nicknamed the Knotty after its emblem the Stafford Knot), to link local services to the main London line at Colwich.

Stamford, one of England's most attractive and historic towns, is only just in Lincolnshire. The River Welland is the boundary between it and Northamptonshire.

Stamford Bridge over the River Derwent is still a popular stopping place for visitors, although the Old Corn Mill inn has recently closed, a victim of drink/drive laws.

For centuries Gnosall was a small agricultural village, but in the 19th century many of the villagers also made shoes for the Stafford shoe manufacturers.

In 1879 the Corporation bought the mill from Lord Stafford and built a new weir and floodgates.

The Baths, opened by the Duchess of Teck in 1895, used brine recently discovered under Stafford Common during the search for a good water supply.

It is another of the village churches built of the limestone from the ridge that acts as a spine all the way through Lincolnshire from Stamford up to the river Humber.

The Baths, opened by the Duchess of Teck in 1895, used brine recently discovered under Stafford Common during the search for a good water supply.

In 1879 the Corporation bought the mill from Lord Stafford and built a new weir and floodgates.

Although isolated fragments of Stamford's 13th-century town walls can still be found around the town, often incorporated into later buildings, St Peter's Gate bastion or angle tower is the only recognisable