Standish is a small village and

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in the Stroud

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, England. The village is north-west of Stroud, on the B4008 road to Quedgeley. The parish, which in the 2001 census had a population of 285, also contains the

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of Stroud Green, situated south-east of Standish village. The population had reduced to 227 at the 2011 census. Originally part of the estate of the Barons Sherborne of Gloucestershire, they developed Standish Court as part of their holdings. Abandoned in the 16th century, they then developed Standish House as a country retreat. Having sold Standish Wood to the

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, they sold Standish House to

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post-

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, on which they developed Standish Hospital, which was immediately passed to the

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for treatment of soldiers. In the 1920s it became a

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for

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patients, and a

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medical facility during

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. Developed by the

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(NHS) as a specialist hospital, it closed in 2004. The parish church is the Grade I listed Church of St Nicholas, built in the 14th century and restored in the 1860s by J P St Aubyn. Between Standish and Stroud Green is Standish Junction, a railway junction where the Golden Valley Line joins the Bristol to Birmingham

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A collection of images of Ordnance Survey Bench Marks in the locality
{{authority control Villages in Gloucestershire Civil parishes in Gloucestershire Stroud District