Stansfeld is an

English surname English names are names used in, or originating in, England. In England as elsewhere in the English-speaking world, a complete name usually consists of a given name, commonly referred to as a first name, and a (most commonly patrilineal) family ...

deriving from the

Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...

'stan' (meaning stony) and 'feld' (field). This

toponymic surname A toponymic surname or topographic surname is a surname derived from a place name.

originates from the ancient township of

Stansfield Stansfield is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located seven miles south-west of Bury St Edmunds, in 2011 its population was 221. The village has an Anglican church dedicated to All Saints. ...

(near

Todmorden Todmorden ( ; ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It is north-east of Manchester, south-east of Burnley and west of Halifax, West Yorkshire, Hal ...

West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in the moors of the Pennines. West Yorkshire came into exi ...

), which was listed in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

of 1086 as 'Stanesfelt’. The surname is most commonly found around the town of

. Notable people with this surname include:

Stansfeld (surname)

Anthony Stansfeld Anthony Hamer Rennie Stansfeld () (born 14 October 1945) is a British Conservative Party politician who was the first Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner (2012–21). Career Stansfeld has had a career in both the military and in indus ...

(b.1945), English Conservative politician and Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner *

Caroline Ashurst Stansfeld Caroline Ashurst Stansfeld (; 28 January 181629 March 1885) was a member of an important family of radical activists in mid-nineteenth-century England who supported causes ranging from women's suffrage to Italian unification. In 1844, she marr ...

(1816–89), English activist and wife of James Stansfeld * James Stansfeld (1820–98), English Liberal politician and President of the Local Government Board * James Rawdon Stansfeld (1866–1936), English army officer *

John Stansfeld John Stedwell Stansfeld (; 16 December 185517 December 1939) was a doctor, Anglican priest and philanthropist in Oxford, England, who founded the Oxford Medical mission in Bermondsey, London, and the Stansfeld Oxford & Bermondsey Club Football ...

(1855–1939), English Anglican priest, physician, and founder of Stansfeld Oxford and Bermondsey Club Football Club *

John Raymond Evelyn Stansfeld John Raymond Evelyn Stansfeld (; 20 April 1880 – 28 September 1915) was a British army officer involved in the Relief of Ladysmith, the Battle of Spion Kop during the Boer War and the First Battle of Ypres. Stansfeld died at the Battle of ...

(1880–1915), English army officer *

Margaret Stansfeld Margaret Stansfeld (; 10 March 1860 – 28 June 1951) was a British teacher and educator who was the founder and Principal of the Bedford Physical Training College from 1903 to 1945 and promoted physical education for girls. Career Stansfel ...

(1860–1951), English educator, and founder and Principal of the Bedford Physical Training College * Thomas Wolryche Stansfeld (1877–1935), English army officer

Stansfeld (given name)

* Grey Owl or Archibald Stansfeld Belaney (1888–1938), British writer and environmentalism (also known as ''Grey Owl'') *

Charles Stansfeld Jones Charles Robert Stansfeld Jones (; 1886–1950), aka Frater Achad, was an occultist and ceremonial magician. An early aspirant to the A∴A∴ (the 20th to be admitted as a Probationer, in December 1909) who "claimed" the grade of Magister Temp ...

or Charles Robert Stansfeld Jones (1886–1950), English accountant, occultist and ceremonial magician (also known as ''Frater Ashad'') *

Timothy Stansfeld Engleheart Timothy Stansfeld Engleheart (; 1803–1879), was an English engraver. He engraved some of the plates in ‘The British Museum Marbles,’ but seems to have removed to Darmstadt, as there is a fine engraving by him of ‘Ecce Homo,’ after Guido ...

(1803–79), English engraver

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Stansfeld (surname)

Stansfeld (given name)

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