In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Standon like this:
STANDON, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Ware district, Herts. The village stands near the Buntingford railway, 6 miles NNE of Ware; was once a market town; and has a station on the railway, a post-office under Ware, and a recent two-arched iron bridge. The parish contains also the hamlets of High-Cross and Colliers-End, and comprises 7,520 acres. ...
Real property, £13,744. Pop. in 1851, 2,462; in 1861, 2,245. Houses, 457. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to the Duke of Wellington. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £520.* Patron, W. Puller, Esq. The church is mainly decorated English; and has a fine Norman W arch, and a tower and spire. The p. curacy of High-Cross is a separate benefice. There are a Roman Catholic college, an endowed school with £55 a year, and charities £132; and the college has accommodation for about 100 inmates, and a chapel.—The sub-district contains also two other parishes. Acres, 13,076. Pop., 3,303. Houses, 673.
Standon through time
Standon is now part of East Hertfordshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how East Hertfordshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Standon itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Standon in East Hertfordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4392
Date accessed: 28th April 2024
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