STANDON, (Hertfordshire) or STANDLOW, 25 cm. 29 mm. from London. Its Ch. with 140 acres of land, formerly bel. to the Kts. Hospitallers, and to Croyland abbey; but the manor, after having been in the Clare's family, came to the crown, where it remained, till K. Henry VIII. gave it to Sir Ralph Sadler, who built a fair house here, where his son, Thomas, entertained K. James I. and his royal train, two nights, in his progress from Scotland to London, in 1603. It went afterwards by marriage to the family of Ld. Aston, of whom Walter Ld. Aston obtained two Fairs here, viz. St. Mark's-day, and Aug. 26, and gave the vicar a fair house, with a garden and orchard; and Tho. Fisher, of London, skinner, gave the Bell inn at Puckeridge, &c. to the school here, to which, in the R. of Q Elizabeth, the fishmongers of London contributed 20 l. a year; and George Crouch, another citizen, gave 5 l. a year, to be distributed among poor maids, at their marriage. There is a farm here, called Lodge, consisting of 470 acres, and a county-bridge over the Rib, which runs through the middle of the T. Lionel D. of Clarence being Ld. of this manor in the R. of his father Edward III. obtained a Mt. here on T. and a Fair for 3 days, at St. Peter ad Vincula, which is since changed to Oct. 13. The Ermin-Street is supposed to pass through this p. over the stony hill field from Braughing to Hartford.