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Stanmore history
Rome
An obelisk on Brockley Hill marks the reputed site of a battle between Julius Caesar’s Roman legions and the local Catuvellauni tribe. This battle is said to have taken place during Caesar’s raid in force on Britain, in 54AD.
Origins of the Manors and Parishes of Stanmore
A manor called Stanmore is first recorded in 793 AD, and the Domesday book of 1086 describes pre-existing manors (estates) of Great and Little Stanmore as having changed ownership in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest.
Pre-urban
Until the late 19th century, Stanmore was a small rural community. In the Middle Ages, a monastic community of cell of Augustinian Canons was established at Bentley Priory. It was dissolved in 1536 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Stately homes
Stanmore House and Stanmore Park were built in 1729 by Andrew Drummond, the founder of the Drummonds Bank and Jacobite sympathiser. Bentley Priory was the final home of the Dowager Queen Adelaide, queen consort of William IV, before her death there in 1849. The opera librettist W. S.S. Gilbert (of the Gilbert and Sullivan duo) lived at Grim’s Dyke.
Urbanisation
The railways first reached Stanmore in 1890 when Frederick Gordon opened the Stanmore branch line to improve access to Bentley. The station was designed to resemble a small English church, complete with a spire and gargoyles. Gordon also purchased land near the station and laid out a wide avenue to attract wealthy Londoners to come to live in the country.
The war and afterwards
Stanmore had an outstation from the Bletchley Park codebreaking establishment, where some of the Bombes used to decode German Enigma messages were housed. During World War II the Battle of Britain was controlled from RAF Bentley Priory. In the 1950s the Automobile Associationbuilt and opened a four-storey office building on The Broadway.
Parish church
The first parish church was the 14th-century St Mary’s, built on the site of a wooden Saxon church. This building was replaced by a new one built in the current churchyard, consecrated in 1632. A new church was constructed in the Gothic Revival style from 1849 to 1850. Queen Adelaide’s last public appearance was to lay the foundation stone of the new church.
Stanmore Hall
Stanmore Hall was built in the 1840s as a gothic castle. It was owned by balloonist Robert Hollond and his wife Ellen Hollond. William Knox D’Arcy lived at the Hall, where he died in 1917. During the Second World War it was used as a nurse’s home for the Royal National Orthopedic Hospital.
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