Stamford is a wonderful town on the Lincolnshire border, only about 40 minutes from where we are staying in Godmanchester. The whole town is completely built in stone and unspoiled for over 400 years. Somehow it escaped the development disease in the 60s and 70s, such that it has no shopping centres whatsoever. The high street is more or less intact and there are some wonderful  roads down the the river. With 3 ancient churches, one of the oldest coaching houses in Britain - The George, and some wonderful old pubs it is a great town to visit and I guess also to live in. The town is big enough that it has all you really need and some old shops and crafts which make the place unique. It must have grown as one of the main junctions on the road from London to the North as at one time the A1 ran through the town. The plaque on the George says that Crusaders stayed there on their way to the holy land.