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Stanford is a large village, with two large greens. The central one, with its
many lime trees, is dominated by the tall, square tower of the church of St
Denys and bordered on two sides by rows of ancient, picturesque cottages. Here
too is the manor house, once occupied by Anne Neville, daughter of the Earl of
Warwick. When she married the Duke of Gloucester (afterwards Richard III), to
mark the occasion, they built the south porch on the church, bearing the Arms of
Warwick.
On the other side of the green stands the rectory and the vicarage, once the
home of Bishop Wordsworth who wrote many well known hymns.
Stanford was once a farming community, consisting of eight farms. Some sent milk
to London every day by train from Challow station, the others kept sheep. There
were two smithies, a carpenter and wheelwrights yard, two sets of threshing
tackle and a brickmaking yard. Corn was ground at the two mills.
General Cox, who commanded an army at the battle of Culloden in 1746, built a
house in Stanford and called it Coxs Hall. Oliver Cromwell stayed at Penstones
during the Civil War.
The population in 1913 was 300, now it is over 2,000. In the 1950s a new estate
was built, part of which is called Huntersfield after the Hunter family who
lived at the manor house from 1816 to 1935. There are also roads called Warwick
Close, Neville Way and Wordsworth Close, named after the famous people who once
lived here.
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