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Stanwell

Stanwell is a suburban village in the Surrey

Surrey

Surrey is a counties of England in the South East England of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire, and Berkshire....
borough of Spelthorne

Spelthorne

Spelthorne is a Non-metropolitan district and borough in Surrey, England. It includes the towns of Ashford, Surrey, Laleham, Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell and Sunbury-on-Thames....
. It is located 15.7 miles (24.8 km) west south-west of Charing Cross

Charing Cross

Charing Cross denotes the junction of the Strand, London, Whitehall and Cockspur Street, just south of Trafalgar Square in City of Westminster within Central London, England....
and half a mile (0.8 km) from the southern boundary of London Heathrow Airport

London Heathrow Airport

London Heathrow Airport or Heathrow , located in the London Borough of Hillingdon, is the largest and Busiest airports in the United Kingdom by total passenger traffic airport in the United Kingdom....
and the London Borough of Hillingdon

London Borough of Hillingdon

The London Borough of Hillingdon is the westernmost borough in Greater London, England. It is home to Brunel University, London Heathrow Airport and Disablement Association of Hillingdon....
. The census area Stanwell North has a population of 7,301 and the census area Stanwell South has a population of 4,766.

e are to theories regarding the origin of the name Stanwell.

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Stanwell is a suburban village in the Surrey

Surrey

Spelthorne

Charing Cross

London Heathrow Airport

London Borough of Hillingdon

History

There are to 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 was it was in fact meant to mean 'stone well'. Indeed the first few letters of the name are the same as in the name of neighbouring Staines, which also is said to mean 'stones'.

Stanwell appears in Domesday Book

Domesday Book

The Domesday Book is the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William I of England, or William the Conqueror....
of 1086 as Stanwelle. It was held by Walter, son of Othere. Its domesday assets were: 15 hide

Hide (unit)

The hide was a unit used in assessing land for liability to "geld", or land tax, in History of Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th centuries....
s. It had 4 mill

Mill (grinding)

A grinding mill is a unit operation designed to break a solid material into smaller pieces. There are many different types of grinding mills and many types of materials processed in them....
s worth £3 10s 0d and 375 eel

Eel

True eels are an order of fish, which consists of four suborders, 19 Family s, 110 genera and approximately 600 species. Most eels are predators....
s, 3 weir

Weir

A weir is a small overflow-type dam commonly used to raise the level of a river or stream. Weirs have traditionally been used to create Water mills in such places....
s worth 1000 eel

Eel

True eels are an order of fish, which consists of four suborders, 19 Family s, 110 genera and approximately 600 species. Most eels are predators....
s, 10 plough

Plough

The plough is a tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting. It has been a basic instrument for most of recorded history, and represents one of the major advances in agriculture....
s, meadow

Meadow

A meadow is a field vegetated primarily by grass and other non-woody plants . It may be cut for hay or grazing by livestock such as cattle, sheep or goats....
for 12 plough

Plough

Woodland

Ecologically, a woodland is an area covered in trees, usually at low density, forming an open habitat, allowing sunlight to penetrate between the trees, and limiting shade....
worth 12 hogs. It rendered £14.

In 1603, Lord Knyvett was granted the manor of Stanwell. Lord Knyvett was the man who arrested Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes or Guido Fawkes was a member of a group of Roman Catholic restorationists from England that planned the Gunpowder Plot. The plot's aim was to displace Protestant rule by blowing up the Houses of Parliament while King James I of England and the entire Protestant and even most of the Catholic aristocracy and nobility were i...
in his attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Stanwell's 12th century St Mary's church contains monuments to Lord and Lady Knyvett. It has Norman

Norman architecture

The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries....
and Gothic

Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is a style of architecture which flourished during the high and late Middle Ages. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....
architectural elements.In 1838, an unknown species of rose

Rose

A rose is a perennial plant flower shrub or vine of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae, that contains over 100 species and comes in a variety of colors....
was found in a local garden and given the name of Stanwell Perpetual.

From 1930 Stanwell formed part of the Staines Urban District

Staines Urban District

Staines was a local government district from 1894 to 1974 around the town of Staines. Apart from Staines itself, it also covered Ashford, Surrey, Laleham and Stanwell....
of Middlesex

Middlesex

Middlesex , from the Old English Middelseaxe , is one of the 39 Historic counties of England of England and the List of counties of England by area in 1831....
. In 1965, under the London Government Act 1963

London Government Act 1963

The London Government Act 1963 is an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which recognised officially the conurbation known as Greater London and created a new local government structure for the capital....
, most of the rest of Middlesex became part of Greater London

Greater London

Greater London is the top-level administrative subdivision covering London, England. The administrative area was officially created in 1965 and covers the City of London , the City of Westminster and the other 31 London boroughs....
while the Staines Urban District was transferred to Surrey

Surrey

Council house

The council house is a form of public housing in the United Kingdom. Council houses were built and operated by local Municipality to supply uncrowded, well built homes on secure tenancies at affordable rents to the local population....
building began, mostly to house airport workers.

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

Famous Residents

Thomas Knevytt, Member of Parliament in 1601, was given the manor of Stanwell for uncovering the Gunpowder Plot
Gunpowder Plot

The Gunpowder Conspiracy of 1605, or the Powder Treason or Gunpowder Plot, as it was then known, was a failed assassination attempt by a group of provincial English Roman Catholic Church against King James I of England....
in 1603
Nicholas Hilliard
Nicholas Hilliard

Nicholas Hilliard was an England goldsmith and limning best known for his portrait miniatures of members of the courts of Elizabeth I of England and James I of England....
, painter leased Poyle Manor
Richard Cox, British horticulturist, created Cox's Orange Pippin
Cox's Orange Pippin

Cox's Orange Pippin is a cultivar of apple. The first plant was raised from a pip around 1825, at Colnbrook in England by a retired Brewing and Horticulture Richard Cox ....
apple, first grown in his garden on the Bath Road
Gary Numan
Gary Numan

Gary Numan is an English singer, composer, and musician. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of commercial electronic music and has been described as the "King of synthpop." Numan is widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and "Cars "....
, singer, was raised in Stanwell, attending the local Abbotsford School
Pete Shaw
Pete Shaw

For the football player of the same name see Pete Shaw .Pete Shaw is a United Kingdom author, broadcaster, computer programming and theatrical producer....
, author and theatrical producer, was raised in Short Lane, Stanwell
Vonn Ströpp
Vonn Ströpp

Vonn Str?pp or Vonn Stropp is the most-used of over 123 pseudonyms used by a Outsider Art Painting whose work has been described as "a kind of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Psychedelic art"....
, surrealist painter born in Stanwell in 1962

Stanwell

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Famous Residents

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