Standon, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Standon, a parish, with a village, in Staffordshire, on the river Sow, 4 miles NNW of Eccleshall. It has a station, called Standon Bridge, on the Stafford and Crewe section of the L. & N.W.R., and a post and money order office under Eccleshall; telegraph office, Eccleshall. Acreage, 2620; population, 404. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £474 with residence. The church, with the exception of the tower, was rebuilt in 1846; it contains some ancient monuments. There is an industrial home for 90 boys under the Church of England Waif and Stray Society.

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 Standon from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Standon (All Saints))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Standon 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)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Staffordshire newspapers online:

• Staffordshire Advertiser
• Tamworth Herald
• Lichfield Mercury
• Staffordshire Sentinel
• Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser