Soon after this invasion the first Staines Bridge was constructed to provide an important Thames crossing point on main road from Londinium ( London ) to Calleva Atrebatum, near the present-day village of Silchester.

Sir Thomas More was tried in 1535 in a Staines public house, to avoid the outbreak of plague in London at that time.

The term ' Staines Lino ' became a worldwide name but the factory was closed around 1970 and is now the site of the Two Rivers shopping centre completed circa 2000.

The town was the site of the Staines air disaster in 1972, at the time the worst air crash in Britain until the Lockerbie disaster of 1988.

( Since the Lockerbie crash was a terrorist act in Scotland, the Staines crash remains England's worst air disaster, and Britain's worst air accident ). The crash was commemorated in June 2004, with the opening of a dedicated garden near the crash site, created at the request of relatives, and the unveiling of a stained glass window at St. Marys Church, where a memorial service was held.

In 1965, under the London Government Act 1963, most of the rest of Middlesex became part of Greater London while Staines Urban District was transferred to Surrey.

In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the Staines Urban District was abolished and its area combined with that of the former Sunbury-on-Thames Urban District to form the present-day borough of Spelthorne.

Colloquially, Staines remains associated with the former, historical, or geographic county of Middlesex, through its cultural and sporting affiliations, and the form of mail addressing preferred by the Post Office ( officially the use of a county on postal addresses was phased out over the period 1996-2000, but is still widely used in practice ).

Until the 14th century Staines was the tidal limit, now downstream at Teddington.

Staines Rugby Football Club which used to play at the Lammas ( a recreation ground on Wraysbury Road, which was also known as the Ashby Recreation Ground ) relocated to The Reeves ( on Snakey Lane, near Hanworth ) in the 1960s but still proudly bears the name of the town with teams named Swans, Cobs and Mucky Ducks.

Events in 1938 and 1939 are well known but it is possible that a venue was active from at least 1931 as a team named Staines raced at Caxton Speedway ( near Cambridge 1931-1933 inclusive ).

As part of these proposals a new station, to be called Staines High Street railway station was due to be built between the existing Staines station, and Wraysbury railway station although planners have now decided that this will not go ahead and the existing station would have an additional platform built instead.

* Danny Blanchflower, former captain of Tottenham Hotspur F. C., was living at Woodlands Nursing Home, Rookery Road, at the time of his death in 1993, having lived at a private address in Staines in the immediately preceding years

In 1751 the Thames Navigation Commission was formed to manage the whole non-tidal river above Staines.

A long running dispute between the City and the Crown over ownership of the river was not settled until 1857, when the Thames Conservancy was formed to manage the river from Staines downstream.

The award was juried by Rosalie Abella, David Staines, and Rudy Wiebe.

" Chapter X Sir Thomas Staines " pp. 366-367 In November 2009 a logbook kept by midshipman J. B. Hoodthorp of HMS Briton detailing the first contact with the mutineers was auctioned for over £ 40, 000 by Cheffin's Auction House in Cambridge.

Positioned on the Bath Road ( where it forks to the Staines Road at the Bell Inn ), Hounslow was centred around Holy Trinity Priory founded in 1211.

A provisional governing committee was set up in Dublin in May 1916, including Eamon Martin, Seamus Pounch, Theo Fitzgerald, Liam Staines and Joe Reynolds.

From 1894 to 1904 the Felham parish was included in the Staines Rural District.

The Staines site was sold in 1988 and all production was concentrated at the former Lister factory in Dursley, Gloucestershire.

Those elected were: Michael Collins ( Director for Organisation ); Diarmuid Lynch ( Director for Communications ); Michael Staines ( Director for Supply ); Rory O ' Connor ( Director of Engineering ).

Kings and other important people must have passed through the town on many occasions: the church bells were rung several times in 1670, for instance, when the king and queen went through Staines.

There are also Staines clubs catering for rowing, sailing, cricket, hockey, running, rambling, martial arts ( jujitsu ), rifle & pistol shooting, bowls, chess, contract bridge, snooker / darts / pool / poker, and various football teams, as well as a district table tennis league.

The A4 Great West Road joins with the A3006 Bath Road ( from the A315 ) before Henlys Roundabout which is in Hounslow West from which a WNW route passes London Heathrow Airport, terminals 1 to 3 and terminal 5 as the Bath Road and a WSW route, the A30, passes terminal 4, bypasses Staines and reaches the M25 ; the remainder is for the mostpart a minor route to Land's End, Cornwall.

A WNW route passes London Heathrow Airport Terminals 1 – 3 and 5 as the Bath Road and a WSW route, the A30, passes Terminal 4, bypasses Staines and reaches the M25 ; the remainder is for the most part a minor route to Land's End, Cornwall.

The Parliamentary Army garrisoned the town upon the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 and later established their headquarters there in June 1647 on a line from Staines to Watford, although the King passed through Uxbridge in April 1946, resting at the Red Lion public house for several hours.

This railway line formerly continued to Staines-upon-Thames and there are plans to re-use the southern part of it for the Heathrow Airtrack rail link from Staines to Heathrow Airport.

Ali is put forward as a candidate to be the next MP for Staines in a crucial by-election and manages to alienate most who cross his path, including feminists and the elderly.

He has also bought all available real estate in Staines in the knowledge that the town is to be destroyed to make way for a new terminal for Heathrow Airport, which will make him super wealthy.

After turning down an offer to have sex with Kate Hedges, in exchange for " keeping his mouth shut " about the videotape, Ali and the West Staines Massiv must race against time to find the master copy of the CCTV tape proving the former Prime Minister's innocence, extending the olive branch to all the gangs all over Staines and neighbouring Berkshire ( even to the East Staines Massiv ) to help them break into the vaults and retrieve the said tape.

In August 2011, the Internet blogger Paul Staines — who writes a political blog as Guido Fawkes and heads the Restore Justice Campaign — launched an e-petition on the Downing Street website calling for the restoration of the death penalty for those convicted of the murder of children and police officers.

He was originally questioned by his local newspaper, the Staines News, about why he had claimed the maximum allowance for a second home in London when his constituency home was in a commuter belt.

* The Earl of Mayo, S. D, Adshead and Patrick Abercrombie, The Thames Valley from Cricklade to Staines: A survey of its existing state and some suggestions for its future preservation, University of London Press, London, 1929

It is a social club run by and for members of seven rowing clubs on the Thames ( the " Founding Clubs "): Kingston Rowing Club, London Rowing Club, Molesey Boat Club, Staines Boat Club, Thames Rowing Club, Twickenham Rowing Club and Vesta Rowing Club.

There is a persistent urban legend, repeated by the now defunct UK newspaper the Sunday Correspondent, that ascribes sexually suggestive names – such as Master Bates, Seaman Staines, and Roger ( meaning " have sex with ") the Cabin Boy – to Captain Pugwashs characters, and indicating that the captain's name was a slang Australian term for oral sex.

Sandby designed a carved oak altar-screen for St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, and a stone bridge over the Thames at Staines, opened in 1796, but removed a few years afterwards on account of its insecurity.

On the night of 22 January 1999, Graham Staines had attended a jungle camp in Manoharpur, an annual gathering of Christians of the area for religious and social discourse.

On 15 December 2011 the Spelthorne Borough Council voted 25-4, with 6 abstentions ( including all of those from Staines ward itself ), to change the name of the town to Staines-upon-Thames with the aim of promoting its riverside location so boosting the local economy and, reportedly, to attempt to discourage association with the fictional character Ali G.

There is a direct half-hourly service at non-peak times from the station to Waterloo via Staines and Hounslow, although it is normally quicker to change at Virginia Water for a faster service.

Staines-upon-Thames, often referred to by its former name Staines (), is a town on the north bank of the River Thames in the borough of Spelthorne in Surrey, England ( historically in Middlesex ).

The town changed its official name from Staines to Staines-upon-Thames on 20 May 2012.

Evidence of neolithoic settlement has been found at Yeoveney, on Staines Moor.

During the period 1642 – 48 there were skirmishes on Staines Moor and numerous troop movements over Staines Bridge during the Civil War.

This is commemorated on a plaque on Staines town hall.

Staines Boat Club is situated on the river and competes at an international level.

Other sports which were once held in Staines but are no longer to be found there include: boxing ( there were weekly programmes off the High Street in the 1930s, and local hearsay suggests bare-knuckle events were held at the Crooked Billet earlier in the 20th century ); wrestling ( bouts were included in boxing programmes of the last 1930s ); motorcycle football ( a club existed in the 1960s ; and American football ( a short-lived team called Staines Removers entered the Budweiser League in 1988, but failed to start the season, although they did play some friendly matches at their base on The Lammas ).

Some areas on the boundaries of the area recommended by the Herbert Commission, fearing increased local taxation, fought successfully not to come under the new Greater London Council, notably the Chigwell, Sunbury-on-Thames, Staines and Potters Bar urban districts of Middlesex.

* 1999-Trans World Radio goes on the air from Grigoriopol ( Moldova ) using a 1-million-watt AM transmitter ; Veteran Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two sons are burned alive by Hindu extremists as they are sleeping in a car in eastern India.

* Civil Aircraft Accident Report 4 / 73: Trident I G-ARPI: Report of the Public Inquiry into the Causes and Circumstances of the Accident near Staines on 18 June 1972.

* Civil Aircraft Accident Report 4 / 73: Trident I G-ARPI: Report of the Public Inquiry into the Causes and Circumstances of the Accident near Staines on 18 June 1972 – Appendix A Accident Investigation Branch, Department of Trade and Industry.

The Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway ( WS & SWR ) extended the line westward resiting the station to the west side of The Quadrant, on the extended tracks slightly west of the present through platforms.

Windsor Bridge is the earliest bridge on the Thames between Staines and Reading, having been built when bridge building was not common.