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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. [7] These estates were subsequently served by the ancient parishes of Great and Little Stanmore.
Stanmore Country Park is a 30.7-hectare (76-acre) public park, Local Nature Reserve and Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation in Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow. It is owned and managed by Harrow London Borough Council. [1] [2] [3] The park was part of the grounds of an eighteenth-century mansion called Warren House.
Bentley Priory is an eighteenth to nineteenth century stately home and deer park in Stanmore on the northern edge of the Greater London area in the London Borough of Harrow. It was originally a medieval priory or cell of Augustinian Canons in Harrow Weald, then in Middlesex. There are no remains of the original priory, but it probably stood ...
Cannons was a stately home in Little Stanmore, Middlesex, England. It was built by James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, between 1713 and 1724 at a cost of £200,000 [2] (equivalent to £39,400,000 today [3]), replacing an earlier house on the site. Chandos' house was razed in 1747 and its contents dispersed.
RAF Bentley Priory was a non-flying Royal Air Force station near Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow.It was the headquarters of Fighter Command in the Battle of Britain and throughout the Second World War.
This is intended to be as full a list as possible of country houses, castles, palaces, other stately homes, and manor houses in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands; any architecturally notable building which has served as a residence for a significant family or a notable figure in history.
Stanmore Common is a 49.2-hectare public park, Local Nature Reserve and Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation in Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow in England. It is owned by Harrow Council and managed by the council with a local group.
The manor included a tenement with a cottage in Stanmore, a tenement named "Waxwell" (in Pinner) with gardens, orchards and pastures, two closes of arable land, waters and fisheries on "Bushes Heath", and other lands in Great Stanmore and Harrow on the Hill. [35] (Edward Chamber speaks of "a fair manor house, another gentleman's house".)