Standon, Hertfordshire

Village in Hertfordshire, England

Human settlement in England

Standon

St Mary, Standon

Standon

Location within Hertfordshire

Population| 4,141 (Parish, 2001)[1]
4,335 (2011 Census including Old Hall Green and Wellpond Green)[2]
OS grid reference| TL396224
Civil parish|

* Standon

District|

* East Hertfordshire

Shire county|

* Hertfordshire

Region|

* East

Country| England
Sovereign state| United Kingdom
Post town| WARE
Postcode district| SG11
Dialling code| 01920
Police| Hertfordshire
Fire| Hertfordshire
Ambulance| East of England
UK Parliament|

* North East Hertfordshire

List of places

England
Hertfordshire

51°52′58″N 0°01′45″E﻿ / ﻿51.882659°N 0.02921°E﻿ / 51.882659; 0.02921

Standon is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish includes the adjoining village of Puckeridge and Old Hall Green. The Grade I listed parish church of St Mary[3] has Anglo-Saxon origins with much Victorian restoration of 1864-65 by H. and G. Godwin. The chancel contains the ornate tombs of the Tudor courtier Sir Ralph Sadler and his son Thomas Sadleir. The house Standon Lordship was built by Ralph Sadler on his estate at Standon, which he acquired in 1544; Standon remained in the possession of the Sadler family until 1660.

Standon Lordship drawn by Robert Clutterbuck and etched by Edward Blore for History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford, Vol. 3, (1827)

The place-name is first attested in an Anglo-Saxon charter of 944–46 AD and means "stony hill".

Standon village has many local facilities. In addition to the church, there is a village hall, two public houses, a Chinese restaurant, post office, butcher, baker, and newsagent. Villagers also make frequent use of facilities in neighbouring Puckeridge, which include a pharmacy, estate agent, petrol station, public houses, doctor's surgery and primary schools (including St Thomas of Canterbury, a Roman Catholic primary school).

Arthur Martin-Leake, one of only three men to be awarded the Victoria Cross twice, was born in the village.

The Prime Meridian passes to the west of Standon.

Standon railway station was a stop on the Buntingford branch to London.

The Standon Calling music festival is held in the village.

Standon features in the novel The House on Boulby Cliff (2020) by Kevin Corby Bowyer, former organist of St Mary's Church.

## See also

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* St Edmund's College, Ware
* Standon Preceptory
* The Hundred Parishes

## References

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1. ^ "Parish Headcounts, Area: Standon CP". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. 2001. Retrieved 2 May 2009.
2. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
3. ^ Historic England. "Church of St Mary (Grade I) (1102348)". National Heritage List for England.

## External links

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Media related to Standon, Hertfordshire at Wikimedia Commons

* Standon (A Guide to Old Hertfordshire)

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Civil parishes in Hertfordshire

Dacorum (partly parished)|

* Aldbury
* Berkhamsted
* Bovingdon
* Chipperfield
* Flamstead
* Flaunden
* Great Gaddesden
* Kings Langley
* Little Gaddesden
* Markyate
* Nash Mills
* Nettleden with Potten End
* Northchurch
* Tring
* Tring Rural
* Wigginton

East Hertfordshire (wholly parished)|

* Albury
* Anstey
* Ardeley
* Aspenden
* Aston
* Bayford
* Bengeo Rural
* Benington
* Bishop's Stortford
* Bramfield
* Braughing
* Brent Pelham
* Brickendon Liberty
* Buckland
* Buntingford
* Cottered
* Datchworth
* Eastwick
* Gilston
* Furneux Pelham
* Great Amwell
* Great Munden
* Hertford
* Hertford Heath
* Hertingfordbury
* High Wych
* Hormead
* Hunsdon
* Little Berkhamsted
* Little Hadham
* Little Munden
* Meesden
* Much Hadham
* Sacombe
* Sawbridgeworth
* Standon
* Stanstead Abbots
* Stanstead St Margarets
* Stapleford
* Stocking Pelham
* Tewin
* Thorley
* Thundridge
* Walkern
* Ware
* Wareside
* Watton-at-Stone
* Westmill
* Widford
* Wyddial

Hertsmere (partly parished)|

* Aldenham
* Elstree and Borehamwood
* Hertsmere Meriden
* Shenley
* South Mimms and Ridge

North Hertfordshire (partly parished)|

* Ashwell
* Barkway
* Barley
* Bygrave
* Caldecote
* Clothall
* Codicote
* Graveley
* Great Ashby
* Hexton
* Hinxworth
* Holwell
* Ickleford
* Kelshall
* Kimpton
* King's Walden
* Knebworth
* Langley
* Lilley
* Newnham
* Nuthampstead
* Offley
* Pirton
* Preston
* Radwell
* Reed
* Royston
* Rushden
* Sandon
* St Ippolyts
* St Paul's Walden
* Therfield
* Wallington
* Weston
* Wymondley

St Albans (partly parished)|

* Colney Heath
* Harpenden Town
* Harpenden Rural
* London Colney
* Redbourn
* Sandridge
* St Michael
* St Stephen
* Wheathampstead

Three Rivers (partly parished)|

* Abbots Langley
* Batchworth
* Chorleywood
* Croxley Green
* Sarratt
* Watford Rural

Welwyn Hatfield (partly parished)|

* Ayot St Lawrence
* Ayot St Peter
* Essendon
* Hatfield
* North Mymms
* Northaw and Cuffley
* Welwyn
* Woolmer Green

Wholly unparished boroughs|

* Broxbourne
* Stevenage
* Watford

See also|

* List of places in Hertfordshire

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National|

* United States

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* MusicBrainz area

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