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

Post-War Stanford

Postwar developments included new housing, and the extension of utilities first supplied only to the airfield and associated sites. The population of the village increased dramatically. 'Turnover' of the local population was greater than in preceding centuries; the Rev. H. Selwyn Fry (vicar, 1963- 73) noted in the Parish Newsletter of June 1973 that of the approximately 300 Baptism Services that he had performed in St. Denys', some 54% of those baptised no longer lived in the parish. Mains water supply from the reservoir at Folly Hill, Faringdon, arrived in Stanford in the early 1950's. Sewerage was extended throughout the village in about 1961-62. The closest gas main to the village is at Shellingford crossroads. New housing estates were built: Joyces Road (1st phase: 1935-46; 2nd phase: about 1963-70); Van Diemans Road (1st phase: about 1948; 2nd phase 1964; 3rd phase: begun in 1970) plus Perry's Road (1st phase: 1964; 2nd phase: early 1970s) and Wordsworth Close (early 1980s ); Hunters Field (about 1963- 70) plus Church Path, Warwick Close, Neville Way, Manor Green (about 1966) and Manor Crescent (1964), and Glebe Road (about 1970); new houses on Cottage Road (about 1972) plus Upper Crale (about 1973); Spencers Close ( 1st phase: 1983-86; 2nd phase: 1992- ); Cox's Court ( 1986-87); a new close on Sheards Lane (about 1987-88), Southdown Court (about 1987-88, where nursery greenhouses had previously stood) and Treadwells (1988-89); Tyrrell Close (about 1988, after the 1987 sale of former allotments land); a new close on Horsecroft (about 1990); new closes on Chapel Road on the site of the Old Corn Store (about 1988) and at Hatch's Farm (1995); and Anvil Court (1996). As farming became less important to the local economy, the motor car became more important to individuals, for getting to places of employment, for services and for shopping. The Stanford in the Vale Community Minibus began services in 1982, taking shape from an idea of Philip Morris, in response to the reduction of the existing commercial bus services to Wantage and Faringdon, and was the first community-operated minibus in Oxfordshire. The commercial pressures of large marketing complexes elsewhere have had their effect on local shops and services.

In 1973, the UK joined the European Community. Following the Local Government Act of 1972, in 1974 the Vale of White Horse became a District Council in the newly enlarged County of Oxfordshire, and thus Stanford ceased to be part of north Berkshire.