An Outline History of Stanford in the Vale
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 First World 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
Additional articles: BBC Domesday 1986	Church Green Fire 2005 Coat Of Arms	Virtual Tour 2003

Introduction

People have been wandering the landscape around, and have settled in, the parish of Stanford in the Vale for the past 10,000 years. The following pages describe the current understanding of the history of the village and the ways that it has changed though time, from the Mesolithic period to the present day. The current history of Stanford in Vale has been produced from both documentary research and recent archaeological fieldwork undertaken in the village by the Stanford in the Vale Archaeological Research Project.

The History of the parish of Stanford in the Vale has been produced and extensively amended from the original web pages produced by Teddy Cuff & James Brooks.