
Description


Stamford
Stamford, Lincolnshire
Stamford, in the Ness Wapentake of Lincolnshire, is one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw. The place-name comes from the Old English elements stan ‘stone’ and ford ‘ford’.
The town is located near a point where the River Welland was easily fordable throughout the year.
In 913 The Great Heathen Army arrived in Stamford.
Ascribed Culture
Collection
- Viking Names
Keywords
- Great_army, landscape, Lincolnshire, place-name
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Acknowledgements
Image © N Chadwick, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0
Image © Richard Humphrey, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0
References
Victor Watts, The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2004), p. 568.
Kenneth Cameron, A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (1998), p. 116.
Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Settlement Names in the East Midlands. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag (1978), pp. 4-5.