Standon

Other current and historical names

Standone

Built-Up Area: Puckeridge
Parish/Community: Standon
District/Borough: East Hertfordshire
County: Hertfordshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°52'50"N 0°1'37"E
Eastings/Northings: 539617, 222184
OS Grid: TL396221
Mapcode Local: GBR LC7.1MZ
Mapcode Global: VHHLL.FZ3K

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Standon within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Standon in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Standon.-- par. and vil. with ry. sta., Herts, 8 miles by rail and 6 by road NE. of Ware, 7745 ac., pop. 2069; P.O.; the par. contains Standon High Cross, eccl. dist., pop. 689.

Standon in the Domesday Book

A village in Braughing hundred, in the county of Hertfordshire.

- Overlord in 1066: Archbishop Stigand
- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Archbishop of Canterbury Christ Church; Freemen, six
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Rohais wife of Richard son of Count Gilbert
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Rohais wife of Richard son of Count Gilbert
- Taxable Value: 11 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £34 in 1066; £16 in 1070; £33 in 1086
- Households: 29 villagers; 15 smallholders; 9 cottagers; 2 freemen; 8 slaves; 1 priest; 1 priest
- Plough Teams: 5 lord's ploughs; 12 men's ploughs (24 plough lands)
- Meadow: 24 ploughs
- Woodland: 600 pigs
- Mills: 5, value £2 5/-

British Place Names

Standon, Hertfordshire

Standon is a village in Puckeridge, Hertfordshire

Standon in historic gazetteers

Standon in the Domesday Book