Stanwell is a suburban village in Surrey (or Middlesex - see below), on the southern border of Heathrow Airport.
Mentioned as a hamlet in the Domesday Book of AD 1086, Stanwell is named after St Anne's Well.
In 1603, Lord Knyvett was granted the manor of Stanwell. Lord Knyvett was the man who arrested Guy Fawkes in his attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Stanwell's 14th century St Mary's church contains monuments to Lord and Lady Knyvett.
In 1838, an unknown species of rose was found in a local garden and given the name of Stanwell Perpetual.
After the Second World War, large scale council house building began, mostly to house airport workers.
Stanwell is in the traditional county of Middlesex, but was moved to the administrative county of Surrey in 1974.
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