STANES, (Middlesex) has a wooden bridge, with a ferry, over the Thames to Surry, 7 m. N. W. of Brentford, 15 cm. 19 mm. from London, was so called from the Saxon word Stina, or stone, because anciently a boundary-stone was set up here, to denote the extent of the city of London's jurisdiction upon the r. 'Tis a populous T. with several good inns, and is governed by 2 constables, and 4 headboroughs, appointed by his Majesty's steward, because it is a Lp. bel. to the crown. Here is a Mt. on F. and Fair Sept. 8. and a ch. sc. The Ch. stands alone, almost half a m. from the T. From Stanes to Brentford, all that which lies bet. the high-road along Hounslow, and the Thames, was called the Forest, or Warren of Stanes, till Henry III. disforested it.