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Great Stanmore

Great Stanmore was a village ten miles from London on the road to Watford. The new church (pictured) was built in 1683; the site of the old church was marked with a flat tombstone and in the late eighteenth century planted about with firs. The villagers had long been accustomed to fetching their water from a large reservoir atop the hill but a well was dug in the village in 1791 and water was found at a depth of 150 feet. Upon this hill is Stanmore Common which is so elevated that the ground floor of one of the houses standing upon it was said to be level with the battlements of the tower of Harrow church.

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