Life on the Trent – Gainsborough’s River of Fortune and Danger, 1821–1841
The River Trent was the making of Gainsborough. For centuries it had carried the town’s commerce south to the Humber and out to the North Sea, bringing coal and groceries upriver and taking grain, wool and manufactured goods down. By the time Adam Stark began keeping his newsbooks in May
Gainsborough in the Domesday Book: A Snapshot of a Lincolnshire Town in 1086
When William the Conqueror’s surveyors arrived in the Lincolnshire settlement of Gainsborough in 1086, they found a modest farming community on the banks of the River Trent. Yet this small entry in the great survey belies a place that had, just seventy years earlier, stood at the very centre of
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