The Ancient Parish of Little Stanmore
Places in the parishes include Canon’s Park, parts of Elstree, Little Stanmore and Whitchurch are places in the Ancient Parish of Little Stanmore, which formed part of the Gore hundred subdivision of the county of Middlesex. Civil Parishes took over from Ancient Parishes in the 1860s, followed by Urban District Councils in 1894 and then London Boroughs in 1965. Little Stanmore now forms part of the London Borough of Harrow.
Surrounding Little Stanmore is the Hertfordshire parish of Aldenham and the Middlesex parishes of Edgware, Hendon, Kingsbury and Great Stanmore.
The Society has produced a Parish Guide to Stanmore, which cover both Great Stanmore and Little Stanmore together.
St Lawrence, St Lawrence Close, Little Stanmore
Records of the parish include baptisms (1599-1965), marriages (1599-1989) and burials (1559-1962) are at London Metropolitan Archives, Ref: DRO/014.
This church, also known as St Lawrence Whitchurch, is recorded in connection with St Bartholomew’s Priory and then came into the possession of the Lake family in 1552. The Duke of Chandos acquired it in the 18th century and totally rebuilt it, only keeping the old tower.
Records of the parish include baptisms (1559-1962), marriages (1559-1956) and burials (1558-1859) are at London Metropolitan Archives, Ref: DRO/109.
