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Standish is a small village and civil parish since 1974 in the Stroud local government district in Gloucestershire, England. The village is 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) northwest of the town of Stroud, on the B4008 road to Quedgeley. The parish, which in the 2001 UK census had a population of 285 (decreasing to 227 at the 2011 census), also contains the hamlet of Stroud Green, situated southeast of Standish village. Standish was 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 National Trust early in the 20th century, they sold Standish Park and Standish House to Gloucestershire County Council post-World War I. On this land the county council developed Standish Hospital, which was immediately passed to the British Red Cross for treatment of soldiers. In the 1920s it became a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients, and a US Army medical facility during World War II. Developed by the National Health Service (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. [edit] MemorialAt the end of the 16th century the Lord of the Manor of Standish was Sir Henry Winston. His memorial in Standish's 14th century Church of St Nicholas carries a 20th-century sign:
This Sarah Winston's grandson became the first Great Duke of Marlborough, ancestor of Sir Winston Churchill. [edit] Registration DistrictsWheatenhurst (1837 - 1937)
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