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| <p> An interesting old town, partly in [[Lincolnshire]] and partly in Northamptonshire, on the Welland, 12 m. WNW. of Peterborough; was one of the five Danish burghs, and is described in [[Domesday Book]] ( <i> q. v </i> .); a massacre of [[Jews]] occurred here in 1140, and in Plantagenet times it was a place of ecclesiastical, parliamentary, and royal importance; figures in the [[Wars]] of the Roses and the Civil War of [[Charles]] I.'s time; has three fine Early English churches, a corn exchange, two handsome schools, Browne's Hospital, founded in [[Richard]] III.'s reign, and Burghley House, a noble specimen of [[Renaissance]] architecture; the <i> [[Stamford]] [[Mercury]] </i> is the earliest provincial newspaper; the district is mainly agricultural. </p> | | <p> A town of Connecticut, situated amid surrounding hills in Long Island Sound, 33 m. NE. of New York; is a summer resort, and has iron and bronze foundries, etc. </p> |
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| <ref name="term_79957"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/stamford Stamford from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | | <ref name="term_79959"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/stamford+(2) Stamford from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 18:01, 15 October 2021
Stamford [1]
A town of Connecticut, situated amid surrounding hills in Long Island Sound, 33 m. NE. of New York; is a summer resort, and has iron and bronze foundries, etc.
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