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Stanmore
Stanmore is a suburban residential district of northwest London in the London Borough of Harrow. It is centred 11mi northwest of Charing Cross. The area, based on the ancient parish of Great Stanmore includes southern slopes of the unnamed ridge of hills rising to Stanmore Hill, one of the highest points of London, 152m high. The population of the appropriate London Borough of Harrow Ward (Stanmore Park) was 11,229 at the 2011 Census. The Canons ward which covers Stanmore railway station and eastern areas had a population of 12,471 at the same census.ToponymyThe 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 Great Stanmore to distinguish it from Little Stanmore.HistoryStanmore 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.Make your own Stanmore vacation itinerary, with a little help from those that know the place like the back of their hands, by using our United Kingdom road trip planning tool.
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