Hidden Rutland
Pioneering 17th-century traveller Celia Fiennes, poet Sir John Betjeman, novelist Sir Walter Scott and historian W G Hoskins all put pen to paper about their love for Stamford
Below: The town of
Stamford, described by architectural
historian Nikolaus Pevsner as "the English country
market town par excellence"
“No great discovery,” wrote the Lincolnshire-born
physicist Sir Isaac Newton, “was made without a bold guess.” Newton, who pioneered the reflecting telescope, the study of optics and, most famously, formulated the laws of gravity after seeing an apple fall from a tree, was born in Woolsthorpe in 1643, and schooled in nearby Grantham. Not far from Woolsthorpe is one of England’s finest
19th-century castles, Belvoir (pronounced Beaver). Belvoir has been the seat of the Dukes of Rutland for 1,000 years, but the present home is the fourth castle to have been built here. It was designed by James Wyatt to replace previous buildings damaged or destroyed during the Wars of the Roses, the English Civil War, and a major fire in 1816. Its rich interiors display artworks by the likes of Gainsborough and Holbein. The Dukes of Rutland, the Manners family, have a long
association with Grantham, the final town in this triangular circuit of the area. Historically, the family supported the Whig political party, and Grantham people showed their allegiance by attending pubs and drinking ales that had adopted the Whig colour, blue, in their name. Pubs such as the Blue Pig and the Blue Bull still exist today. Grantham is also famous as the birthplace of Britain’s first (and only) female Prime Minister, the Conservative Margaret
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