Shopping
The village centre has a few shops, including a Co-op supermarket, Co-op Chemists, Pricegate, Chaplins (traditional family butcher), a bakery, greengrocers, Cathy Stevens Jewellery, Mark Jarvis, Wilson & Sons Newsagent, Barclays Bank, Alliance and Leicester, Flint. There is also a fish and chip shop as well as other takeaways, a pub (the Stamford Arms) and various other shops. The Lawnwood shopping parade has Henson's hardware shop, Greens sandwich shop and a hairdresser. There is a Budgens supermarket a few minutes away from the village centre.
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