Property News · November 17, 2017

Let’s move to Stamford, Lincolnshire: it’s a real-life Jane Austen set


Almost implausibly perfect, its film-star beauty never fadesWhat’s going for it? If you have a sense of deja vu in Stamford, it’s probably because you have deja vu-ed these streets before. Film crews after that Merrie-Olde-Englande-before-factories-and-uppity-plebs-ruined-everything look are 10 a penny here. The industrial revolution bypassed Stamford when local nob the Marquess of Exeter lobbied for the railway to go via Peterborough instead. In the 1960s they got a bypass, declared Stamford England’s first conservation area, and listed 600 buildings. Today, this is our Finest Historic Stone Town. You can’t move for heritage trails, plaques and costumed extras in bustles. True, the 21st century has seeped in; there is a Holland & Barrett, a bus station, and fine arts centre (though, sadly, the Greggs shut last year), but even new executive homes look as if they’re expecting the Dowager Countess of Grantham for tea.The case against One can tire of honey-hued stone, of perfection. One can even miss Greggs. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
Read more…Let’s move to Stamford, Lincolnshire: it’s a real-life Jane Austen set

You may also like...