The Plot Thickens

Hi, I’m Karen Meadows. Thank you for visiting The Plot Thickens.

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I’m lucky enough to be the tenant of one of fifty large allotment gardens in the middle of the small and beautiful stone town of Stamford in England’s East Midlands. The gardens were first created by Brownlow Cecil, 4th Marquess of Exeter in the mid 1800s and their layout has remained virtually unchanged. Between the plots we have some 200 old apple trees, many of them rare varieties, and in 2017 Natural England awarded the gardens heritage orchard status.

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Over the centuries at least 500 people have worked these plots. Follow our quest to discover who they were, what they grew, and what shenanigans they got up to. Be prepared for numerous diversions and musings along the way about gardening life here in our quiet (and occasionally not so quiet) little corner of Stamford.

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If you haven’t discovered our website yet, do head over to Waterfurlong Orchard Gardens, where you will find a wealth of information about our gardens and gardeners, past and present.

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And now for the small print...

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The Plot Thickens is a non-commercial blog. All recommendations are based on personal preference and my own or our other gardeners’ own experience. Payments or free goods are not accepted in return for reviews of products and services. If an exception is made this will be clearly stated.

All words and images, unless otherwise credited, are my own. If you would like to copy text or images, I’d kindly ask that The Plot Thickens gets a positive mention and a link back to this blog.

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The Wrong Station


One of our kind subscribers, John, pointed out that our last article on Matthew Lightfoot featured a photo of what was almost certainly the wrong station. "The image of Stamford station whilst very nice is not I think the station from which our gallant police constables would have gone in hot pursuit of the unfortunate fowl. They could have done but perhaps more likely they would have used the East Station in Water Street, the branch line to Essendine which linked the LNER to Grantham. Using the LMS would have meant going to Peterboro East and then crossing town to Peterboro North."

We've hunted high and low and finally found a photograph of the old East Station, which has been a private home since the late 1950s.

Many thanks, John!


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