Stanton Lacy
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 Stanton Lacy Bridge, crossing the River Corve, and St Peter's Church |
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| Stanton Lacy shown within Shropshire | |
| Population | 345 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | SO496788 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Ludlow |
| Postcode district | SY8 |
| Dialling code | 01584 |
| Police | West Mercia |
| Fire | Shropshire |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
| EU Parliament | West Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Stanton Lacy is a small village and geographically large civil parish located in south Shropshire, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Ludlow.
The River Corve flows through the parish, on its way south towards the River Teme, and passes immediately to the west of the village.
The ancient parish church in the village is St Peter's. The building is Grade I listed and has pre-Norman parts dating to circa 1050.
The parish covers a wide rural area, encompassing a part of the flat and low-lying Corvedale but also an area of upland around Hayton's Bent (with the highest elevation being 265 metres (869 ft)). It contains a number of small settlements, including:
The 2011 census recorded a resident population of 345. The geographic area of the parish is 2,325 hectares (5,750 acres).
The northern part of the Old Field (now occupied by Ludlow Racecourse and the Ludlow Golf Club) is located in the parish, located about a mile (1.6 km) to the south of the village.
Much of the parish, as well as the neighbouring parish of Bromfield, remains part of the Earl of Plymouth's Oakly Park Estate.
Stanton Lacy has early Anglo-Saxon origins and can trace its history to before the Norman conquest of 1066, after which the large manor of Stanton was granted to Roger de Lacy. Previously simply known as Stanton, this ownership gave it the name of Stanton Lacy, which is in use to the present day and helps distinguish it from the many other places in England (and Shropshire) with the name 'Stanton'.
The manor features in the Domesday Book of 1086 and this recorded a notably large population of the manor, indeed the greatest in the county measured by number of households, as well as the fourth-greatest monetary value. The Book also recorded the presence of a church and 2 priests. At the time Stanton came within the Saxon hundred of Culvestan, which was replaced during the reign of Henry I and the parish then came within the new Munslow hundred.
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