Stanmore is one of the Inner West’s oldest suburbs, with a long history. John Jones originally owned the land, which he sold to William Brown in 1835. Brown named the neighborhood Stanmore after a village in his home county of Gloucestershire, England. The suburb began to develop in the 1860s with the construction of the railway station, which opened in 1855. Stanmore had become a fashionable suburb by the 1880s, with many grand Victorian and Federation homes built.
