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Our History
the town of stamford
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ermine street
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bradcroft
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the sack friars
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the austin friars
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still glides the stream
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creation of the gardens
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a town of shopkeepers
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bull-running and pistol-whipping
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gardeners -v- scrumpers
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the town of stamford
waterfurlong timeline
ermine street
bradcroft
the sack friars
the austin friars
still glides the stream
creation of the gardens
a town of shopkeepers
bull-running and pistol-whipping
gardeners -v- scrumpers
gardeners
150 years of waterfurlong gardeners
austin barnett 1848 - 1926
john eayrs 1862 - 1940
charles evans 1855 - 1922
sergt john harrison 1817 - 1896
major herbert hart 1849 - 1909
samuel hawes 1801 - 1859
william haycock 1788 - 1851
henry johnson 1816 - 1889
edward joyce 1848 - 1935
sergt matthew lightfoot 1854 - 1914
william mitton 1789 - 1866
thomas sandall 1839 - 1922
john swan 1812 - 1891
samuel weddell 1819 - 1879
edward winterton 1835 - 1890
apples
traditional orchards
stamford's lost apples
pippins, codlins, pearmains and russets
pie, sauce or apple snow?
our waterfurlong apples
allington pippin
annie elizabeth
ashmead's kernel
barnack beauty
beauty of bath
belle de boskoop
betty geeson
blenheim orange
bramley's seedling
brenchley pippin
charles ross
cornish aromatic
cox's orange pippin
crimson bramley
discovery
dumelow's seedling
ellison's orange
gascoyne's scarlet
howgate wonder
irish peach
james grieve
john standish
jupiter
keswick codlin
lady sudeley
lady's delight
lane's prince albert
laxton's fortune
laxton's superb
loddington
london pippin
lord derby
lord grosvenor
lord hindlip
lord lambourne
lord suffield
manx codlin
mère de ménage
margil
merton beauty
monarch
nelson's codlin
newton wonder
northern greening
ontario
peasgood's nonsuch
queen caroline
red lady sudeley
red victoria
ribston pippin
schoolmaster
tydeman's early worcester
warner's king
worcester pearmain
nature
our flora and fauna
azure damselfly
bladder campion
brimstone butterfly
bullfinch
cinnabar moth
coal tit
collared dove
common inkcap mushroom
common toad
gatekeeper butterfly
goldfinch
grass snake
great spotted woodpecker
great tit
green woodpecker
holly blue butterfly
leaf-cutter bee
long-tailed tit
lords and ladies
marbled white butterfly
narrow-bordered bee hawk-moth
orange-tip butterfly
red campion
ringlet butterfly
rose chafer beetle
self-heal
speckled wood butterfly
sweet violet
tawny owl
treecreeper
white plume moth
wild honeysuckle
wood forget-me-not
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