Stanwell, Surrey (Middlesex) - St Mary's Church - postcard c.1910

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• Picture / Image:  Stanwell Church, Middlesex [now in Surrey since 1965] - actually St. Mary's Church, Stanwell
• Publisher:  Christian Novels
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Stanwell is a suburban village in the Surrey borough of Spelthorne. It is located 15.7 miles (24.8 km) west south-west of Charing Cross and half a mile (0.8 km) from the southern boundary of London Heathrow Airport and the London Borough of Hillingdon. The census area Stanwell North has a population of 7,301^[1] and the census area Stanwell South has a population of 4,766.^[2]

There are two theories regarding the origin of the name Stanwell. One is that it was named after St Anne's Well in the village. The second, and more likely, theory is that it in fact means 'stone well'. Indeed the first few letters of the name are the same as in the name of neighbouring Staines-upon-Thames, which also is said to mean 'stones'.^{[3][citation needed]}

Stanwell appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Stanwelle. It was held by Walter, son of Othere. Its domesday assets were: 15 hide. It had 4 mills worth £3 10s 0d and 375 eels, 3 weirs worth 1000 eels, 10 ploughs, meadow for 12 ploughs and woodland worth 12 hogs. It rendered £14.^[4]

In 1603, Lord Knyvett was granted the manor of Stanwell. Lord Knyvett was the man who arrested Guy Fawkes in his attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament. In his will Lord Knyvett made provision for the foundation of free school in Stanwell and the school was founded in 1624.^[5] The school building still exists in the High Street but has now been converted into residential flats. Stanwell's 12th century church of St Mary the Virgin contains monuments to Lord and Lady Knyvett. It has Norman and Gothic architectural elements including a 14th-century spire. In 1838, an unknown species of rose was found in a local garden and given the name of Stanwell Perpetual.

From 1930 Stanwell formed part of the Staines Urban District of Middlesex. In 1965, under the London Government Act 1963, most of the rest of Middlesex became part of Greater London while the Staines Urban District was transferred to Surrey.

After the Second World War, large-scale housing society and council house building began, mostly to house airport workers.

In 2004, the village won a Bronze Medal in the national Britain In Bloom^[6] competition in the Urban Community category.

Stanwell Place was the site of Stanwell's manor-house from the 17th century, located about half a mile to the west of the village, north of Park Road.^[7] The Gibbons family owned the manorial rights from 1754 to 1933,^[8][9] and slowly sold off the estate from the 1800s. Sold to John Watson Gibson in 1933, in 1937 330 acres (1.3 km²) were sold off to the Metropolitan Water Board for the development of the King George VI Reservoir. After Gibson's death in 1947, Stanwell Place was sold to King Faisal II of Iraq who owned it until his assassination in 1958.^[9] The estate was then purchased for gravel extraction, and despite local attempts to prevent it, the house was allowed to become derelict, and eventually demolished in the 1960s.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=surrey

number of items=single

period=pre - 1914

postage condition=unposted