Stanwell
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Stanwell is a village in the Spelthorne district, in Surrey, England. It is 16 miles west of central London. A small corner of its land is used as industrial land for nearby Heathrow Airport. The rest
Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
The first secular (and non-royal) owner, of the land representing most of Staines and Stanwell since the Norman Conquest, was Thomas Knyvet, 1st Baron Knyvet. He arrested Guy Fawkes in the cellar of the Houses of Parliament when Fawkes was planting explosives to kill King James VI and I and was convicted of high treason, while rough justice was dispensed on others alleged to have conspired. Knyvet's actions, and those of a Roman Catholic peer who was forewarned, and of
Building of the former Free School founded by Thomas Knyvett
War memorial on Stanwell Village Green
Church of St Mary, Stanwell
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The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Stanwell, is a Church of England parish church in the village of Stanwell, Surrey. It dates to the 12th-century and is a grade I listed building. It has Norman and Go
The church from the east side
The lych gate
Yew trees in the churchyard