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Sunday 27 February, 2011
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Stanway and Stanton - Locations literally written in stone

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Throughout history stone has played an important role in mankind’s development, not least in Anglo-Saxon times when settlements frequently made reference to stone or stone structures.

For example, Stone, in Staffordshire, former capital of the Mercian region, is thought to have taken its name from stone burial mounds raised on the graves of two princes, Ruffin and Wulfad. Whilst the details can not be substantiated, the town’s name has a direct link with Old English “Stan” or stone.

“Stan” also occurs as a prefix in towns like Stanway in Essex, denoting a place on the Roman Stone Road (way) from Bishop Stortford to Colchester, and also in Stanlow, today the site of the oil refinery complex on the Wirral, but formerly the site of an Abbey located on a Hlaew (hlaw) or low hill. (In the case of, for example, Arbor Low in Derbyshire and Cauldon Low in Staffordshire Hlaew can denote the location of a barrow or burial mound.)

The theme continues through Stanton and the Nordic varient Stainton (Steinn – Stone) linked with the Old English “ton” or settlement, Stanstead (a stoney place) and even to Stanley latterly adopted as a man’s name but previously used to denote a stoney field or meadow.

Not only is stone all around us in our modern buillt environment, it purvades our lives in so many other unexpected ways.

Our image shows another placename variation on the stone theme - Staines in Middlesex


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