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Stanford on Teme
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Stanford on Teme
Location within Worcestershire
OS grid reference SO735658
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town WORCESTER
Postcode district WR6
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52°17′25″N2°26′11″W / 52.290156°N 2.436377°W / 52.290156; -2.436377

Stanford on Teme is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Stanford with Orleton, in the Malvern Hills district, in the county of Worcestershire, England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 144. [1]

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History

Stanford Court, a Grade II listed 18th century stately home, [2] is the ancestral home of the Winnington baronets. The house was first built in the reign of King James I. It was extended in the 18th century, and remodelled after a fire in 1882. [3]

Lucy Lyttelton Cameron, the children's author was born here in 1781. [4] She was the daughter of George Butt and his wife and they had another daughter named Mary Martha. The rectory in Stanford was built for George Butt just to the west of the church. [5]

On 1 April 1933 the parish was abolished and merged with "Orleton" to form "Stanford with Orleton". [6]

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References

  1. "Population statistics Stanford on Teme AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time . Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  2. "Stanford Court, Stanford with Orleton". British Listed Buildings.
  3. "Stanford Court, England". Parks & Gardens UK.
  4. Joanne Potier, ‘Cameron , Lucy Lyttelton (1781–1858)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 26 Aug 2014
  5. 'Parishes: Stanford on Teme', A History of the County of Worcester: volume 4 (1924), pp. 341-345. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42907 Date accessed: 26 August 2014
  6. "Relationships and changes Stanford on Teme AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 20 May 2022.

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