Wansford

Retirement from Peterborough took him to the nearby village of Wansford, where he spent many more years happily running the parish church choir and fulfilling the many musical commissions which came his way.

Stanley Vann obituary 2010

At Welwyn they came out on the old road and drove on north, through Baldock and Biggleswade, past St Neots and Huntingdon, by Norman Cross, over the bridge at Wansford and to Stamford.

Ruined City Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

A public-house sign at Wansford commemorates the locally-famed circumstance of a man who, having fallen asleep on a hay-cock, was carried down the stream by a sudden flood: awakening just under the bridge of that town, and being informed where he was, he demanded, in astonishment, if this were 'Wansford in

Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French

I recall a lunch I had not long ago at a beautiful old fifteenth century inn at Wansford-some of you may remember, it is just a short distance away from the busy Great North Road.

Britain in the Third Year 1941

Heslerton, and Wansford you may see other examples of modern church building, in which the architect has not been hampered by having to produce a certain accommodation at a minimum cost.

Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923

Grantham and Stamford, but at the Wansford cross-roads it cleared up, and gradually the gray dawn showed.

The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance William Le Queux 1895

We were hung up at the level-crossing at Wansford, but about half-past three in the afternoon we swept over the brow of the hill beneath the high wall of Burghley Park, and saw beneath us the roofs and many spires of quiet old Stamford.

Hushed Up! A Mystery of London William Le Queux 1895

A little farther when we are pass'd the water att Wansford we enter Ruttlandshire wch seems more woody than ye others.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

I went thence to Wansford and passed by Mrs St Johns house wch stands on a hill a mile from ye town in a fine parke.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

From hence to Leister wch they Call but 13 miles, but ye longest 13 I ever went and ye most tiresome being full of sloughs, yt I was near 11 hours going but 25 mile, as they Reckon it, between Wansford and Leicester town – a footman Could have gone much faster than I Could Ride.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888