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Line 26: Stanway is mentioned in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086.<ref>'Stanway: Introduction', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 10: Lexden Hundred (Part) including Dedham, Earls Colne and Wivenhoe (2001), pp. 259-63. Accessed through the [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=15273 online version].</ref> The £4.3m [[A12 road (Great Britain)\|A12]] bypass opened in 1970. Local pubs include the Princess Charlotte (the first pub in the UK to be named after [[Princess Charlotte of ~~Cambridge~~Wales (born 2015)\|Princess Charlotte of Wales]]) and the Swan on London Road, and Live and Let Live on Millers Lane. There are five schools – three primary schools,Lexden Springs School and The Stanway School which has academy status, and describes itself as a "Humanities and Maths & Computing College". Four of the five schools are close together, on adjacent roads with the third primary behind the Tollgate shopping centre. An ever -expanding shopping district comprising The Tollgate Centre and Stane Park ~~occupy~~occupies an area close to the A12, these centres are home to national retailers such as B&Q, Sainsbury's, Homebase, Next and Marks and Spencer (having closed it's town centre store in 2022). Further shops and businesses such as the Co-op, Halfords and Hatfields occupy the Peartree road area, ==Governance==

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