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Parks and the outdoors in Stamford

7 parks, gardens, beaches and walks in and around Stamford.

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Parks and the outdoors in Stamford

  1. Eat

    Bull and Swan

    Good pub food, gets booked out. Eat pizza in the potting shed and watch the garden cinema. With nine rooms, 3 are dog-friendly.

    Meals Mon Tue 6PM-8PM, Wed-Sat noon-2:30PM, 6PM-8PM, Sun noon-8PMB&B double £120

  2. See

    Burghley House

    Grand 16th-century "prodigy house": Queen Elizabeth I and her courtiers toured the country, and her nobles vied to construct bling palaces suitable for receiving them all. This example was built 1558-1587 by Sir William Cecil her Lord High Treasurer, and the Cecil family still live here. The Elizabethan exterior is little altered, but the interior was re-modelled in the 18th century and stocked with industrial quantities of Italian artwork. There are also fine collections of furniture and porcelain. The parkland (open all year) was laid out by Capability Brown and nowadays includes a modern sculpture garden and "Garden of Surprises", which proved too surprising for some visitors so they've turned off the water features. The house and gardens are often used as film and TV locations so check ahead for closures around this.

    Mid-Mar-Oct Sat-Thu 11AM-5PMAdult £17, child £9

  3. Do

    Burghley Park Golf Club

    Established 1890 in the Capability Brown park, a round off white tees is 6312 yards, par 70.

    Mon-Fri, Sat Sun after 2:30PMVisitor round £35

  4. See

    St Michael the Greater Church

    This is what you get when hubris and property development outweigh piety. It dates at least back to Norman times, though much altered in later centuries, especially in 1832 when a reformist vicar had the internal pillars removed. But these were supporting the tower, and down the whole thing came. The church was rebuilt within four years in neo-Gothic style, and served until 1974 when it became redundant. Developers ripped into the structure and turned it into a parade of shops, while most of the graveyard became a car park.

  5. Do

    Tallington Lakes Leisure Park

    These are a series of flooded gravel pits. They have water skiing, wakeboarding, jet skiing, dinghy sailing, windsurfing and canoeing, a dry ski slope, and a 15 metre climbing tower. There's also a camping and caravan park, open Mar-Jan.

    Daily 9AM-9PM

  6. Eat Not mapped

    Riverside Fish Bar

    Fish & chips near the river.

    Mon-Fri 11:30AM-2:30PM, 4:30PM-9PM, Sat 11:30AM-9PM

  7. Drink Not mapped

    The King's Head

    Cosy pub with beer garden just off High Street.

    Wed Thu noon-10PM, Fri Sat noon-11PM, Sun noon-8PM

Listings from the Wikivoyage guide to Stamford (CC BY-SA 4.0).