Little Stanmore, Middlesex

Historical Description

Stanmore, Little, a parish, consisting of one-half of Edgware, in Middlesex. The church is half a mile NNW of Edgware station on the G.N.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Edgware. Acreage, 1591; population, 926. The manor belongs to the Clutterbuck family. A quondam palace of the Duke of Chandos, erected at a cost of £2 50,000, and noticed in our article Edgware, was here. The living is a rectory in the diocese of London; gross value, £316 with residence. The church, a building of brick in the Italian style, was the chapel of the quondam palace, and had Handel for the conductor of its music. It contains some good wall paintings, a painted ceiling, and some fine stained windows illustrative of the works of Handel. There are almshouses for seven poor persons, and some small charities.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Little Stanmore from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stanmore, Little (St. Lawrence))

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Middlesex is online.

Maps

Online maps of Little Stanmore are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Villages, Hamlets, &c