Grantham Walk: Town Centre【4K】

Located in the county of Lincolnshire, and around 110 miles north of London, is the town of Grantham.

Geographically, Grantham is situated along the River Witham in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire. During the 9th century AD the Danes conquered Eastern England, giving Grantham some of its street names including 'Westgate' and 'Swinegate'. The 'gate' suffix comes from the Old Norse 'gata', meaning street.

By the late 11th century, Grantham was a market town with a prosperous wool trade. The wealth garnered from the wool industry contributed towards the building of St Wulfram's Church. With a spire around 84 metres/275 foot tall, the church dominates the skyline to this day.

In 1642, Isaac Newton was born in the village of Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, around eight miles south of Grantham. Between 1655 and 1660, Newton studied at The King's School in Grantham. A signature is carved on the wall of what is now the school library, believed to have been carved by Newton himself. He would go on to formulate a number of principles including the universal laws of motion and gravitation, as well as being one of the fathers of calculus. His work paved the way for the Industrial Revolution.

Grantham's position along the Great North Road made it a popular staging post during the pre-railway era. Horses and their passengers would stop overnight at coaching inns before continuing on, in this case either north towards Edinburgh, or south towards London. When the railway arrived in Grantham in the 1850s, it became part of what is today the East Coast Main Line running from King's Cross station in London to Edinburgh Waverley station.

During the 19th century, Grantham became an engineering town. The company Richard Hornsby & Sons was founded in the town, and is credited with construction of the world's first commercial heavy oil engines in 1892, as well as the first oil-engined tractor in 1896.

In 1925, Margaret Thatcher was born in Grantham (née Margaret Hilda Roberts). She would go on to become Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990, and Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. As such, she became the country's first female Prime Minister, and longest-serving PM of the 20th century.

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Filmed: 8th September 2021

Link to the walk on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/JyXdb4jmnGXugzmM8

Filmed on a Sony FDR-AX700 with a Zhiyun Crane 2 and a Sony ECM-XYST1M Stereo Microphone.

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 London Road
2:28 Frederick Tollemache Statue
2:36 St Peter's Hill
4:09 Isaac Newton Statue
4:21 St Peter's Hill
4:54 High Street
6:46 Guildhall Street
8:31 Westgate
13:18 Market Place
14:34 High Street
15:07 Vine Street
16:07 Swinegate
17:34 St Wulfram's Church
18:04 Swinegate