An Outline History of Stanford in the Vale By Teddy Cuff & James Brooks
Browse Chapters: Introduction Prehistory Romano-British Anglo-Saxon Domesday Stanford Medieval Stanford Reformation and Tudor Stanford	Civil War Stanford Early Modern Stanford 19th Century Stanford The Great War The Inter-War Years The Second World War Post-War Stanford
Church and Chapel Schools and Libraries Civic Administration Newsletters Health and Social Services, and Young People	Village Halls Fairs, Festivals and Fetes Clubs and Societies Businesses Acknowledgements & Further Reading

The Great War

Of the approximately 144 men from Stanford who served in land, sea and air forces in the Great War of 1914-18, some 20 were killed or died of injuries (of the 15 we have traced, 9 were buried in France, 3 in Belgium, 1 in Germany, 1 in Stanford and the name of 1 appears on Chatham Naval Memorial). The needs of an economy at war would have been keenly felt in a small rural community, with many local men and women working the land. German prisoners of war were encamped on the site of the old quarry on the western side of the Wantage-Faringdon Road, going out to work on local farms. A family of Belgian refugees was housed at Bow Cottages. The Mission Hall in the garden of Rectory Lodge was sold for Red Cross work, taken down and re-erected in Abingdon. The Crown Prince Inn (now Campdene House) changed its name to simply The Prince, a result of anti-German sentiment. The waterwheel of Stanford's Upper Mill stopped turning at the outbreak of the First World War; that of the Lower Mill stopped just after the Second World War, when its last miller was Teddy Robins.