 The county division was a considerably larger constituency than the borough one had been.From the 1885 general election until the dissolution before the 1918 election the constituency was surrounded by to the north Sleaford; to the east Spalding; to the south east Wisbech; to the south North Northamptonshire; to the south west Rutland; to the west Melton and to the north west Newark.The constituency of Grantham was an enclave wholly surrounded by Stamford.