Stanford-on-Avon

Stanford-on-Avon
240px Church of St Nicholas
File:Northamptonshire UK location map.svg Stanford-on-Avon  Stanford-on-Avon shown within Northamptonshire
OS grid reference	SP589786
District	Daventry
Shire county	Northamptonshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Northampton
Postcode district	NN6
Dialling code	01788
Police	Northamptonshire
Fire	Northamptonshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Daventry
List of places UK England Northamptonshire

Stanford-on-Avon is a hamlet in the civil parish of Stanford in the Daventry district of Northamptonshire, England. It lies next to the River Avon which here forms the county boundary between Northamptonshire and Leicestershire. On the Leicestershire side of the river is the historic house of Stanford Hall. Stanford Reservoir is one mile north of the village.

Organ

The church contains the oldest metal organ pipes surviving in Britain. As the upper part of the organ-case appears to be related to the Dallam organ at Tewkesbury Abbey, the pipes probably date from the 1630s (i.e. before the Cromwell era when many organs were destroyed).

External links

• Map sources for Stanford-on-Avon

Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

• Cyclists' Special: Cyclists Touring Club film of touring group passing St. Nicholas Church, Sunday 8 May 1955