Stanes

Harold defeated the Norwegians. Hist. Brit. (6) 5. 250; Commonplace 183. In his account of Middle sex Camden writes of Stanes, a village with a wooden west of London: “Stanes presents itself It takes its name from a boundry bridge over the Thames. stone formerly placed here to mark the jurisdiction of the city Near this stone is the famous Running mead of London. where the barons of England a embled in a body, 1215, Milton (2. 2.) to demand their liberties of King John.” must often have seen this place in his journeys from Horton to......... ch277.xhtml l 290