The Stanford legacy 

The Stanford family are now extinct but their legacy lives on not only in Preston Manor, which illustrates the way of life of the family and their servants, but also in the names given to streets and roads on the former Stanford lands: Stanford Avenue, Benett Drive, Vere Road, Shaftesbury Road (Vere was MP for Shaftesbury from 1873-1880) and Ellen Street. Other names recall the family estates in Wiltshire: Tisbury Road, Norton Road, Bavant Road, Knoyle Road and Semley Road, whilst Shirley Drive and Erlington Road are named for former owners of the Manor of Preston.

Acknowledgments
Adapted from an article by David Beevers, The Royal Pavilion Review, 1990 Number 1.
The author would like to acknowledge the help he has received from the published work of Dr Sue Berry and the research on the Stanford estate undertaken as an MSC project by Mr Tim Sheriff in 1986.

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