Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Stoke Poges

Stoke Poges, par. and vil., in SE. of Bucks - par. (partly in town of Slough), 3465 ac., pop. 2150; pop. of town part, 109; vil., 2 miles N. of Slough; P.O., T.O.; Stoke Farm, Stoke Park, and Stoke Place are seats. The churchyard is the scene of the Elegy of Gray (1716-1771), the poet, who is buried here.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Stoke Poges CP/AP       Buckinghamshire AncC
Place: Stoke Poges

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