Film-makers adore Stamford for a variety of reasons! Stamford was the first town in the British Isles to become a Conservation Town and this was in 1967. Its main thoroughfare, the Old Great North Road, was replaced by the A1 bypass, easing the traffic flow through the town, this being the subject of many short films and documentaries of the time.  

Stamford's varied historical architecture has been  the strong choice of TV and cinema film-makers through the years. The BBC's "Middlemarch" and the film, "Pride and Prejudice", saw the town turned into a film-set for weeks at a time. Roads were covered, TV aerials removed and wooden frontages added to buildings.

Film crews and artistes took up residence locally and could be seen each day around the catering and make-up vans on ground close to St. George's Church. Actors rubbed shoulders with residents, shopped in the shops and sat out on the street film sets waiting for "takes".  Red-coated soldiers were seen marching along the streets, and the stage coach and 4 was a regular sight driving through

Red Lion Square!  

Also filmed here: The Golden Bowl (2000), 

Bleak House (1985 and 2005), Elizabeth: The golden age ( 2007), Another Country (1984), 

Space ( 1984), The Crown (current), and others.