According to the medieval chronicler Geoffrey Gaimar, after the Battle of Stamford Bridge Harold entrusted the loot gained from Harold Hardrada to Ealdred.

His last game was against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on 28 April 1973, and before the game the BBC cameras for Match of the Day captured the Chelsea chairman handing Charlton a commemorative cigarette case.

There used to be an exact replica built by Leitch at Stamford Bridge which had long been demolished.

Their home is the 41, 837-seat Stamford Bridge stadium, where they have played since their establishment.

In 1904 Gus Mears acquired the Stamford Bridge athletics stadium with the aim of turning it into a football ground.

As there was already a team named Fulham in the borough, the name of the adjacent borough of Chelsea was chosen for the new club, having also considered names like Kensington FC, Stamford Bridge FC and London FC.

An ambitious redevelopment of Stamford Bridge threatened the financial stability of the club, star players were sold and the team were relegated.

In 1982, Chelsea were, at the nadir of their fortunes, acquired by Ken Bates for the nominal sum of £ 1, although by now the Stamford Bridge freehold had been sold to property developers, meaning the club faced losing their home.

Chelsea have only ever had one home ground, Stamford Bridge, where they have played since foundation.

Stamford Bridge was designed for the Mears family by the noted football architect Archibald Leitch, who had also designed Ibrox, Celtic Park and Hampden Park.

Most football clubs were founded first, and then sought grounds in which to play, but Chelsea were founded for Stamford Bridge.

Starting with an open bowl-like design and one covered terrace, Stamford Bridge had an original capacity of around 100, 000.

In the early 1970s the club's owners announced a modernisation of Stamford Bridge with plans for a state-of-the-art 50, 000 all-seater stadium.

When Stamford Bridge was redeveloped in the Ken Bates era many additional features were added to the complex including two hotels, apartments, bars, restaurants, the Chelsea Megastore, and an interactive visitor attraction called Chelsea World of Sport.

| West Bromwich Albion at Stamford Bridge on 23 September 1905 ; Chelsea won 1 – 0.

The Stamford Bridge freehold, the pitch, the turnstiles and Chelsea's naming rights are now owned by Chelsea Pitch Owners, a non-profit organisation in which fans are the shareholders.

As a condition for using the Chelsea FC name, the club has to play its first team matches at Stamford Bridge, which means that if the club moves to a new stadium, they may have to change their name.

Stamford Bridge has been used for a variety of other sporting events since 1905.

View from the Stamford Bridge ( stadium )# West_Stand | West Stand of Stamford Bridge ( stadium ) | Stamford Bridge during a UEFA Champions League | Champions League game, 2008 In October 1905 it hosted a rugby union match between the All Blacks and Middlesex, and in 1914 hosted a baseball match between the touring New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox.

Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java ( 1817 ), the purest sulphur was supplied from a crater from a mountain near the straits of Bali.

Although he had given sanctuary to Tostig Godwinson when the Northumbrians drove him out, Malcolm was not directly involved in the ill-fated invasion of England by Harald Hardraade and Tostig in 1066, which ended in defeat and death at the battle of Stamford Bridge.

Stephen lost the towns of Oxford and Stamford to Henry while the king was diverted fighting Hugh Bigod in the east of England, but Nottingham Castle survived an Angevin attempt to capture it.

The end of the Viking Age is traditionally marked in England by the failed invasion attempted by the Norwegian king Harald III ( Haraldr Harðráði ), who was defeated by Saxon King Harold Godwinson in 1066 at the Battle of Stamford Bridge ; in Ireland, the capture of Dublin by Strongbow and his Hiberno-Norman forces in 1171 ; and 1263 in Scotland by the defeat of King Hákon Hákonarson at the Battle of Largs by troops loyal to Alexander III.

* June 5, 1823 – Raffles Institution, then the Singapore Institution, was founded by the founder of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles.

Ketton, where Robert was either born or perhaps first took holy orders, is a small village in Rutland, a few miles from Stamford.

The name Tupaia is derived from tupai the Malay word for squirrel and was provided by Sir Stamford Raffles.

The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 less than three weeks after the Battle of Stamford Bridge but the tapestry does not provide this context.

Cecil was born in Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1520, the son of Richard Cecil, owner of the Burghley estate ( near Stamford, Lincolnshire ), and his wife, Jane Heckington.

William, the only son, was put to school first at The King's School, Grantham and then at Stamford School, which he later saved and endowed.

Cecil, according to his autobiographical notes, sat in Parliament in 1543 ; but his name does not occur in the imperfect parliamentary returns until 1547, when he was elected for the family borough of Stamford.

Burghley HouseBurghley House near the town of Stamford was built for Cecil between 1555 and 1587 and modelled on the privy lodgings of Richmond Palace.

Having survived all his children except Robert and Thomas, Burghley died at his London residence, Cecil House on 4 August 1598, and was buried in St Martin's Church, Stamford.

Rafflesia was found in the Indonesian rain forest by an Indonesian guide working for Dr. Joseph Arnold in 1818, and named after Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the leader of the expedition.

His successor, King Harald Hardrada attempted the invasion of England in 1066, but was beaten and killed at the battle of Stamford Bridge, an event which is generally considered the end of the Viking Age.

Newcastle eventually secured a place in the 2012-13 Europa League with a 2-0 win over Chelsea, at Stamford Bridge, not only a historic match in NUFC history, but one of the most amazing goals in Newcastle and Premier League history was scored by Pappis Demba Cisse ( he scored both goals in the win ) guaranteeing participation in European League competition for the first time since 2004.

First, Harald Hardrada of Norway took York in September, but was defeated by Harold at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, in Yorkshire.

On the accession of Harold Godwinson after the death of Edward the Confessor, Hardraada invaded Northumbria with the support of Harold's brother Tostig Godwinson, and was defeated at the Battle of Stamford Bridge three weeks before William I's victory at the Battle of Hastings.

His luck came to an end, however, in the Battle of Stamford Bridge on 25 September, in which he was defeated and killed by Harold Godwinson's forces.

In 1981 the museum opened an exhibition space in Stamford, Connecticut, that was housed in Champion International Corporation.

* Stamford Cone, a 14-metre-high cone built as a landmark feature for the Swiss Banking Corporation HQ in Stamford, Connecticut

The present bridge was built by George Portwood of Stamford in 1722 under the orders of the Earl of Nottingham, then proprietor of the estate.

Development of the area began around 1800, and many prosperous dwellings were built around Stamford Hill over the next 100 years.

of land was purchased in 1964 in Stamford, Connecticut and a shelter was immediately built on the property.

The area is home to the Fulham Football Club stadium Craven Cottage and the Chelsea Football Club stadium Stamford Bridge and the various flats and entertainment centres built into it.

It was not until 1740, however, that the Middlesex Society of the Town of Stamford built the first community church, now the First Congregational Church of Darien ( which stands on the original site at the corner of Brookside Road and the Boston Post Road ).

The act was granted in the reign of Elizabeth I in 1571, and detailed how Stamford had prospered as a result of the river, but also stated that mills built between Stamford and Deeping had resulted in it no longer being navigable, as they had diverted the water.

The ' Buckton Vale ' estate was built between January 1950 and March 1953 ; the ' Stamford Park ' estate between January 1953 and January 1955, the ' Copley ' estate commenced building in August 1954 and the ' Ridgehill ' estate in January 1956.

Independent companies also built branches from Essendine to Stamford and Bourne and from Welwyn to Hertford and to Dunstable via Luton, all of which were worked by the GNR.

Starting in the late 19th century, New York residents built summer homes on the shoreline, and even back then there were some who moved to Stamford permanently and started commuting to Manhattan by train, although the practice became more popular later.

Lichen dating of the dry-stone walls suggest that the north and west boundary walls were built in the 17th and early 18th centuries, when Bradgate was still occupied by the earls of Stamford.

Stamford is characterized by street after street of timber-framed and stone buildings ( using the local limestone that Lincoln Cathedral is built from ), little shops tucked down back alleys.

Near Stamford ( actually in the historic Soke of Peterborough and the parish of Barnack ) is Burghley House, an Elizabethan mansion, vast and ornate, built by the First Minister of Elizabeth I, Sir William Cecil, later Lord Burghley.

Killingworth has grown since the early 1960s, with the addition of new privately owned homes, Highfields Estate was built in the 1970s and was named after battles e. g. Flodden, Agincourt, Stamford, Culloden, Sedgemoor, etc.

The stream had two local bridges: Stamford Bridge on the Fulham Road ( also recorded as Little Chelsea Bridge ) and Stanbridge on the Kings Road, now known as Stanley Bridge. The existing Stamford Bridge was built of brick in 1860 – 2 and has been partly reconstructed since then.

* memorial commemorating the Battle of Stamford Bridge has been built at the edge of new housing estate overlooking the field where the battle is thought to have taken place.

Just east of Stamford Bridge is the manor house Burtonfields Hall, built in 1837 by the architect Anthony Salvin for Charles Darley.

After secretly donating Stromm's fortune to charity, for the rebuilding of Stamford, Baldwin arranges for a new Penance suit ( with the same appearance, but less spikes than the previous one ) built after locking Nitro in the previous one.

The church of St Philip and St James, built in the lancet style by George Harry Grey, the seventh Earl of Stamford, dates from 1840 and stands on the site of Groby Castle.