Church Walk (4)
Bearing right along Church Walk, the bowling green on the left is used by the Stamford Bowling Club and the green and club-house are on the 1838 Tithe map but not in a 1799 Unicorn inventory. The club may possibly have originally met before that at the Stamford Arms & Bowling Green Hotel in Church Street and the club could go back to the 1730s but there is no evidence. Presidents are known from 1870.
Church Walk is what remains of an ancient path joining Old Market Place with the Wheatsheaf. All of the area to the west of this path was originally the town’s open field.
Bear right through the grounds of the listed St. George’s Church that was built in 1799 for Oswald Leicester but largely rebuilt in 1896. Beyond, St. George’s National School building, now used by an undertaker, dates from 1860.