Stoke Poges Buckinghamshire Church SE c.1912

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• Picture / Image:  Stoke Poges Church
• Publisher:  F Frith, Reigate
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Stoke Poges is a village and civil parish within South Bucks district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the south of the county, about three miles north of Slough, a mile east of Farnham Common.

The name "Stoke Poges": Stoke means a stockaded place. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Stoche. The affix 'Poges' came later, and refers to the family that owned the manor in the 13th century. Thus William Fitz-Ansculf, who held the Manor in 1086 (in the grounds of which the Norman Church was built), became known as William Stoches or William of Stoke. Two hundred years after William, Amicia of Stoke, heiress of the then occupant of the Manor, married Robert Pogeys, who was Knight of the Shire. Thus the name was given to Stoke Poges.

The manor house in Stoke Poges was once a very grand place, and Queen Elizabeth I was entertained here in 1601. Later, in the middle of the 17th century, the lady of the manor, Lady Purbeck, caused great national scandal when she had a love affair outside her marriage. In 1635 she was imprisoned for adultery but escaped from prison to France, later returning to Stoke Poges where she died in 1645. In 1647 the manor house was the place where King Charles I was imprisoned before his execution. Later the manor came into the possession of William Penn, who founded Pennsylvania, and remained in his family for at least two generations.

Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is believed to have been written in the churchyard of the St Giles Church in Stoke Poges, although there are other local claimants, including the theory by Rev. H. Cavalier that the Elegy was actually written in the Churchyard of Everdon, Northamptonshire, based on observations comparing the two churchyards and the lines in the poem.^{[citation needed]}