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Stanway, Essex

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Stanway is a village near (now suburb of) Colchester.

It's located approximately 3 miles west of the town centre. It is home to the Colchester Zoo, the Tollgate shopping development and Stanway Comprehensive school. The local football team is Stanway Rovers. Stanway was named in the Domesday Book which was commissioned by William the Conqueror in December 1085. For a comprehensive history of Stanway, see http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=15273 Click on link at botton right of this and subsequent pages for more information. Reference: 'Stanway: Introduction', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 10: Lexden Hundred (Part) including Dedham, Earls Colne and Wivenhoe (2001), pp. 259-63.


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