Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire - Gray's Monument - local postcard c.1910

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• Picture / Image:  Gray's Monument, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire
• Publisher:  H. G. Stone, Slough
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Stoke Poges is a village and civil parish in the South Buckinghamshire district of Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the south of the county, about three miles north of Slough and a mile east of Farnham Common.

In the name Stoke Poges, stoke means ""a stockaded place"". In the Domesday Book of 1086, the village was recorded as Stoche. William Fitz-Ansculf, who held the manor in 1086 (in the grounds of which the Norman parish church was built), later became known as William Stoches or William of Stoke. Two hundred years after William, Amicia of Stoke, heiress to the manor, married Robert Pogeys, Knight of the Shire, and the village eventually became known as Stoke Poges.

See also the article Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire.

A manor house at Stoke Poges was built before the Norman Conquest and was mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book. In 1555 the then-owner, Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, pulled down much of the existing fortified house. He replaced it with a large Tudor brick-built house, with numerous chimneys and gables. In 1599 it was acquired by Sir Edward Coke, who is said to have entertained Queen Elizabeth I there in 1601.

A few decades later, the lady of the manor, Lady Purbeck, had a love affair with Robert Howard, a Member of Parliament. The affair's discovery caused a national scandal, and in 1635 Lady Purbeck was imprisoned for adultery. She escaped from prison to France, but later returned to Stoke Poges, where she died in 1645.

King Charles I was imprisoned at the manor house in 1647 before his execution.

Later the manor came into the possession of Thomas Penn, a son of William Penn who founded Pennsylvania and was its first proprietor. Thomas Penn held three-fourths of the proprietorship. The manor property remained in his family for at least two generations, as his son John Penn ""of Stoke"" also lived there.

Thomas Gray's 1750 poem, ""A Long Story,"" describes the house and its occupants.^[2] Sir Edwin Henry Landseer was a frequent visitor to the house and rented it as a studio for some time. His most famous painting, The Monarch of the Glen (1851), is said to have been created at Stoke Poges, with the deer in the park used as models.

The Mansion was designed by James Wyatt (architect to George III) who worked on the development of The Mansion and surrounding monuments from 1790 to 1813. The parkland was the product of two geniuses of Eighteenth Century landscape architecture, Lancelot ""Capability"" Brown and Humphry Repton, who designed in 1792 the landscape that can be seen today.

The estate was used as a private residence until 1908 when Nick ""Pa"" Lane Jackson, founder of the Corinthian Sporting Club (Corinthian F.C.), purchased the estate, and turned it into Britain's first Country Club. One of his initial objectives was to commission the famous amateur golfer and course architect Harry Colt (who also designed Pinevalley, Wentworth, Sunningdale, Muirfield and Royal Portrush) to design the golf course. The golf course, along with the Tennis Courts and the conversion of The Mansion were all completed within seven months. In 1908, the Club’s first President was His Highness Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein and first Vice President was the Right Honourable Earl Howe. The committee also included Lord Chesterfield, Lord Kinnoul and Lord Decies.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=buckinghamshire

number of items=single

period=pre - 1914

postage condition=unposted