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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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STOKE-POGES, a village and a parish in Eton district, Bucks. The village stands 1½ mile N of Slough r. station, and has a post-office under Slough. The parish contains also Ditton hamlet, and parts of Slough and Salthill. Acres, 2,500. Real property, £8,275. Pop. in 1851, 1,501; in 1861, 1,600. Houses, 304. The property is much sub-divided. The manor belonged anciently to the Poges; and passed to the Molins, the Hastings, the lawyer Coke, Lord Purbeck, the Gayers, the Halseys, Lady Cobham, and the Penns. S.-Park is the seat of Lord Taunton; S.-Place, of Col. R. H. Vyse; S.-Farm, of Lady Maria Molyneux; and Fairfield Lodge, of J. U. Easson, Esq. Ditton Park belongs to the Duke of Buccleuch; Baylis House, to the Duke of Leeds; and the latter is now used as a Roman Catholic boarding-school. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £500.* Patron, the Duke of Leeds. The church ranges from Norman to later English, and has a tower and spire. The churchyard is the scene of Grey's "Elegy,'' and contains his tomb. A chapel of ease is at Ditton. There are endowed national schools with £30 a year, an alms-house-hospital with £129, and other charities £46.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Stoke Poges CP/AP Eton RegD/PLU Buckinghamshire AncC |
| Place: | Stoke Poges |
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