| Lower Stondon | |
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 Entering Lower Stondon | |
  Lower Stondon Location withinBedfordshire | |
| OS grid reference | TL155355 |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | HENLOW |
| Postcode district | SG16 |
| Dialling code | 01462 |
| Police | Bedfordshire |
| Fire | Bedfordshire and Luton |
| Ambulance | East of England |
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Lower Stondon is a small village in theCentral Bedfordshire district ofBedfordshire, England. It is located close to the border withHertfordshire, around 2.5 miles (4 km) south-west ofHenlow. It is part of the largerStondoncivil parish, which at the2001 Census had a population of approximately 2,000 increasing to approximately 2,300 at the 2011 Census.
The A600 road fromHitchin toBedford runs close to the village, while the nearest railway station isArlesey on theEast Coast Main Line.
TheDomesday Book has two entries for Lower Stondon.
In Folio 209 Bedfordshire, Section Roman VIII, The Land of St Benedict of Ramsey, Clifton Hundred it says:[1]
In [Lower and Upper] Stondon the same abbot [of St Benedict] holds half a hide. There is land for half a plough, and there is [half a plough]. This land belongs and belonged to the Demesne of the church of St Benedict. It is worth 15s.
In Folio 209 Bedfordshire, Section Roman LV, The Land of the Wife ofRalph Taillebois, Clifton Hundred it says:
In [Lower and Upper] Stondon Engeler holds 2½ hides of Azelina. There is land for 2½ ploughs. In Demesne [are] 2 ploughs; and 3 bordars with half a plough. There are 2 slaves [and] meadow for 2½ ploughs. It is worth 60s; when received, 40s; TRE £4. Wulfmær, of Eaton Socon, a thegn of King Edward, held this land; and there were 5 soak men, men of the same Wulfmær, and they could give and sell [their land] to whom they wished.
Part of the village receives theAdvertiser, theComet and theBedfordshire on Sunday newspapers. The village had its own magazine, distributed each season about the village and surrounding area calledStondon Times. This stopped in about 2008 and at present no single magazine has taken its place.The village also receives two magazines distributed to villages in the surrounding area, one calledIn and Around and the other calledThe Villager.
The village has a Lower School, which was originally built in 1861 and extended in the 1950s and 1960s. Children join when they are 4 and then transfer to a Middle School in the area aged 9 (Henlow Middle or Robert Bloomfield) and then ontoSamuel Whitbread Academy aged 13.
The schools all maintain websites which can be found at -
Stondon Lower School -[2]Robert Bloomfield Middle School -[3]Henlow Middle School -[4]Samuel Whitbread Academy -[5]
The village hosted the largest private transport museum in the UK. The collection had over 400 exhibits, including cars, motorcycles, tanks, aircraft, and a full-size replica of Captain Cook's ship, theHM Bark Endeavour. The museum closed in April 2015.[1]
