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Stanley, Derbyshire

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The Church gates commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee of 1887, and the churchyard contains a memorial (erected in 2004) to the five aircrew who lost their lives when an experimental high-altitude RAF Wellington Bomber disintegrated above Stanley in 1942 following a loss of cabin pressure.
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was opened in 1876 by the Great Northern Railway but was renamed West Hallam to avoid confusion with another station on the line. The station closed in 1964 and the last local colliery, the 'Stanley Pit' ended deep seam mining in 1959 and closed completely in 1961.
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The present Church of England Church of St Andrew dates from the 12th Century, though the site is believed to be a Saxon one. St Andrew's contains a few Norman features, but was greatly restored in 1875. The font dates from the fourteenth century.
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Originally an agricultural area, by the late 19th Century the main local employer was the coal industry, although brickmaking and some quarrying also took place.
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Stanley has a pub (The White Hart), village shop/Post Office, a village hall, a hair salon, a primary school and a physiotherapy clinic.
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for Catholic sympathies at a time when Roman Catholics suffered oppression. Stanley Grange Farm once belonged to
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Stanley may well have been a Saxon settlement. By the seventeenth century it had a reputation like neighbouring
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and as a Catholic School was raided twice – in 1637 and again by Parliamentary forces in 1642 during the
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The Stanley One Place Study (useful information for researching family history in Stanley)
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Richard Felix (born 1949), television personality, historian and paranormal investigator.
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Stanley Village Trail on Ilkcam.com contains more detailed information and photographs
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being a separate village a little to the North. Since 1974 it has been part of the
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Stanley is located in Derbyshire
Derbyshire
OS grid reference
SK417404
District
Erewash
Shire county
Derbyshire
Region
East Midlands
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
DE7
Police
Derbyshire
Fire
Derbyshire
Ambulance
East Midlands
UK Parliament
Mid Derbyshire
UK
England
Derbyshire
52°57′36″N 1°22′48″W / 52.960°N 1.380°W / 52.960; -1.380
Derby

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