Coordinates: 51°37′01″N 0°19′30″W / 51.6170°N 0.3250°W / 51.6170; -0.3250

Stanmore
Stanmore  Stanmore shown within Greater London
OS grid reference	TQ1691
London borough	Harrow
Ceremonial county	Greater London
Region	London
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	STANMORE
Postcode district	HA7
Dialling code	020
Police	Metropolitan
Fire	London
Ambulance	London
EU Parliament	London
UK Parliament	Harrow East
London Assembly	Brent and Harrow
List of places: UK • England • London

Stanmore is a North West London town in the London Borough of Harrow, England. It is a suburban development situated 11 miles (18 km) north west of Charing Cross.

Contents 1 History 2 Modern Stanmore 3 Notable people associated with Stanmore 4 Transport 4.1 Nearby places 4.2 Nearest tube station 4.3 Main bus routes 5 External links

[edit] History

The area was recorded in the Domesday Book as Stanmere, the name deriving from the Old English stan, 'stony' and mere, 'a pool'. There are outcrops of gravel on the clay soil here and the mere may have been one of the ponds which still exist.

By 1574 the area had become known as Stanmore the Great to distinguish it from Little Stanmore.

Stanmore Village railway station was open for train services between 1890 and 1952. Stanmore tube station opened in 1932.

Stanmore had an outstation from the Bletchley Park codebreaking establishment, where some of the Bombes used to decode German Enigma messages in World War Two were housed.

Stanmore is also home to RAF Bentley Priory from where the Battle of Britain was controlled, also formerly to RAF Stanmore Park, HQ of Balloon Command. The latter closed in 1997 and is now a housing estate.

[edit] Modern Stanmore

The suburb is characterised by numerous small restaurants and cafés, several public houses, and a handful of boutique-style clothing stores. The centre of Stanmore is dominated by the presence of a large Sainsbury's supermarket. Stanmore's extensive residential areas are leafy and predominantly affluent, with many residents commuting daily to jobs in central London and the City.

Stanmore is home to Stanmore College (a government further education establishment) and a local library. The suburb also hosts the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital - known as RNOH - which is famed for its spinal unit.

Stanmore has affluent Indian, Jewish and Catholic communities, including its local Synagogue, Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue on London Road (which has the largest membership of any single synagogue in Europe),^[1] an Islamic Centre, KSIMC Of London (Hujjat))^[2] and new Hindu Temple^[3] on Wood Lane.

[edit] Notable people associated with Stanmore

• Performer and Musician Beardyman (Darren Foreman) grew up in Stanmore
• Entrepreneur Nigel S. Fisher lived in Stanmore
• Performer and Comedian Matt Lucas was born in Stanmore on 5 March 1974. He attended Aylward First & Middle School, and the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
• Queen Adelaide (1792 - 1849), queen consort of William IV, lived at Bentley Priory from 1848 until her death there.
• George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen — Peelite Prime Minister (in office December 1852 – February 1855); was raised and is buried in Stanmore.
• W.S. Gilbert — English dramatist, librettist and illustrator; buried in Stanmore.
• Robert and Ellen Hollond lived here from 1847. He was a balloonist and MP, she found London's first créche.^[4]
• Clement Attlee — Labour Prime Minister in the first post-war government; lived in a large villa "Heygate", which was later demolished and replaced by a small block of flats
• Stanmore is also the birth-place of peroxide Brit-rocker Billy Idol (William Michael Albert Broad), football coach Dave Bassett, Nikolai Levey (Coldplay producer), Arsenal footballer Theo Walcott, actress Linda Hayden and author Anthony Horowitz.
• Actor Cyril Shaps lived in Stanmore.
• Actor Roger Moore, famous for his role as James Bond and in The Saint, lived in Stanmore.
• Footballer Theo Walcott, current Arsenal and England player, lived in Stanmore.
• Labour MP Keith Vaz currently lives in Stanmore
• Oliver Mann, co-host of popular Podcast, Answer Me This!.^[5]

[edit] Transport

[edit] Nearby places

• Belmont
• Wealdstone
• Edgware

[edit] Nearest tube station

• Stanmore tube station

[edit] Main bus routes

The following London bus routes serve Stanmore (correct at 7 August 2007):

• H12 Stanmore to South Harrow (via Hatch End and Pinner)
• 142 Brent Cross to Watford Junction (via Edgware)
• 340 Edgware to Harrow Bus Station
• Night Bus N98 Stanmore to Holborn (via Willesden and Marble Arch)

[edit] External links

• Stanmore College web site
• Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital web site

1. ^ Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue Website
2. ^ hujjat.org
3. ^ swaminarayansatsang.org
4. ^ Great Stanmore: Introduction', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 5: Hendon, Kingsbury, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore, Edmonton Enfield, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham (1976), pp. 88-96. URL: Date accessed: 12 May 2009.
5. ^ http://ollymann.wordpress.com/about/

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