Stanmore

Stanmore is a suburban residential district of northwest London inside the London Borough of Harrow. It is centre 11 miles northwest of Charing Cross. The location, based totally at the historical parish of Great Stanmore consists of southern slopes of the unnamed ridge of hills rising to Stanmore Hill, one of the maximum factors of London, 152 metres high. The population of the ideal London Borough of Harrow Ward become 11,229 at the 2011 Census. The Canons ward which covers Stanmore railway station and eastern areas had a populace of 12,471 on the same census.

Until the late 19th century, Stanmore was a small rural community. In the Middle Ages, a monastic community of cell of Augustinian Canons turned into installed at Bentley Priory. It was dissolved in 1536 in the course of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. In 1729 Andrew Drummond, the founder of the Drummonds Bank and Jacobite sympathiser, bought Stanmore House and the Stanmore Park estate as his us of a residence.

The wealthy businessman James Duberley commissioned Sir John Soane to design a massive mansion residence north of the original Bentley Priory in 1775. This residence turned into brought to for the duration of the eighteenth and 19th centuries via ious proprietors. It turned into drastically extended in 1788, once more by Sir John Soane, for John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn. The Priory become the final home of the Dowager Queen Adelaide, queen consort of William IV, earlier than her dying there in 1849.