Stamford became one of the Danish Five Boroughs of the East Midlands — a major centre of Danelaw administration and military organisation. The town's position at the crossing of the Welland on Ermine Street made it crucial. Stamford's Scandinavian settlement was so dense that the area became one of the most thoroughly 'Danish' parts of England — place-names and personal names in the surrounding countryside remained strongly Scandinavian for centuries. The town produced some of England's finest medieval pottery.
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