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The place earliest documented use of the name comes from a charter of 793, when land in Stanmore was granted to St Albans Abbey. [4] The Domesday book of 1086 records the two manors of Stanmore as Stanmere, the name deriving from the Old English stan, 'stony' and mere, 'a pool'.
Stanmore station was opened on 10 December 1932 by the Metropolitan Railway (now the Metropolitan line). [8] The station building and those on the branch were designed by the Metropolitan Railway's architect, Charles W. Clark, in the suburban style used on the company's other post-First World War stations such as those on the Watford branch.
The hospital was established by way of a merger of the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital (founded in 1840 and based in Hanover Square) and the National Orthopaedic Hospital (founded in 1836 and based in Great Portland Street) in August 1905. [2]
Stanmore College is a small college for further education in the London Borough of Harrow.It was established in 1987 as one of the borough's three tertiary colleges, originally called Elm Park College.
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.
Stanley P. Morse's [1] Key Publications, based variously at 1775 Broadway, [2] 280 Madison Avenue, [3] 175 Fifth Avenue, [4] and 261 Fifth Avenue [5] in New York City, New York, published comic books from 1951 to 1956. [6]
Vila is a site at the southern end of Kolombangara in the nation of Solomon Islands, originally the location of the Vila Stanmore coconut plantation.. During World War II, Japanese forces built an airstrip in order to stage aircraft from Rabaul down to Guadalcanal, and on several occasions, beginning on 24 January 1943 the US attempted to put the airstrip out of operation by bombing it.
The Battle of Blackett Strait (Japanese: ビラ・スタンモーア夜戦 (Battle of Vila–Stanmore)) was a naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on 6 March 1943 in the Blackett Strait, between Kolombangara and Arundel Island in the Solomon Islands.