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.