Stewkley

Stewkley

Coordinates: 51°55′34″N 0°45′40″W / 51.9262°N 0.7610°W / 51.9262; -0.7610

Stewkley
St Michael & All Angels Church, Stewkley - geograph.org.uk - 938767.jpg
St Michael & All Angels Church
Stewkley is located in Buckinghamshire
Stewkley

 Stewkley shown within Buckinghamshire
Population 1,731 [1]
OS grid reference SP853261
Parish Stewkley
District Aylesbury Vale
Shire county Buckinghamshire
Region South East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town LEIGHTON BUZZARD
Postcode district LU7
Dialling code 01525
Police Thames Valley
Fire Buckinghamshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament Buckingham
List of places: UK • England • Buckinghamshire

Stewkley is a village and a civil parish within the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England. It is located 5 miles (8 km) East of Winslow and 4 miles (6 km) West of Leighton Buzzard.

The village name Stewkley is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means woodland clearing with tree stumps. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was recorded as Stiuclai.

The principal manor in Stewkley once belonged to the son of Geoffrey Chaucer, who was an occasional visitor to the village.

The parish church, dedicated to St Michael and All Angels, is one of the least-altered of England's 6000 Norman churches. There is also a Methodist Chapel in High Street South, and St Michael's Church of England Combined School, for children aged 4–11.

In 1969/70 Stewkley was scheduled to be destroyed to make way for the building of London's Third Airport, but was saved after villagers fought an environmental and political campaign; the Wing Airport Resistance Association (WARA).

Stewkley has one of the longest village High Streets in Britain, a title also claimed by Combe Martin in Devon, whose two mile (3 km) high street is not as continuously populated as Stewkley's 1.7 miles (2.7 km) of High street.

Comedian Al Murray, best known for his stand-up persona "The Pub Landlord", was born in Stewkley.

Former England cricket player Darren Gough has also previously lived in the village.

Within the civil parish attached to the village are also the hamlets of North End and Stewkley Dean.

References

  1. ^ Neighbourhood Statistics 2001 Census

External links

v · d · eAylesbury Vale District
Buckinghamshire • County Council elections • District Council elections
Aylesbury Constituency • Buckingham Constituency
Towns
(Component
Areas and Hamlets)
Aylesbury (Bedgrove, Broughton, California, Elm Farm, Elmhurst, Haydon Hill, New Zealand, Prebendal Farm, Quarrendon, Queens Park, Southcourt, Turnfurlong, Walton, Walton Court) • Buckingham (Bourton, Buffler's Holt, Castle Fields, Mount Pleasant, Page Hill) • Wendover (Cobblers Hill, Concord, Dean, Hazeldean, Kings Ash, Little London, Lower Bacombe, Scrubwood, Smalldean, The Hale, Upper Bacombe, Wendover Dean, Wendover Marsh, World's End) • Winslow (Shipton, Shipton Brook)
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Other Civil Parishes
(Component Villages
and Hamlets)
Addington • Adstock • Akeley (Akeley, Stockholt) • Ashendon (Ashendon, Lower Pollicott, Upper Pollicott) • Aston Clinton (Aston Clinton, Chivery, Vaches) • Aston Abbotts • Aston Sandford • Barton Hartshorn • Beachampton • Biddlesden • Bierton with Broughton (Bierton, Broughton, Broughton Crossing, Burcott) • Boarstall (Boarstall, Honeyburge) • Brill (Brill, Little London) • Buckingham Park (Berryfields, Weedon Hill) • Buckland (Buckland, Buckland Wharf) • Calvert Green (Calvert) • Charndon • Chearsley • Cheddington (Cheddington, Cooks Wharf) • Chetwode • Chilton (Chilton, Easington) • Coldharbour (Fairford Leys) • Creslow • Cublington • Cuddington • Dinton-with-Ford and Upton (Aston Mullins, Dinton, Ford, Gibraltar, Upton, Waldridge, Westlington) • Dorton • Drayton Beauchamp • Drayton Parslow • Dunton • East Claydon (Botolph Claydon, East Claydon) • Edgcott • Edlesborough (Dagnall, Edlesborough, Northall, Ringshall) • Fleet Marston • Foscott • Gawcott with Lenborough (Gawcott, Lenborough) • Granborough (Granborough, Green End) • Great Brickhill • Great Horwood (Great Horwood, Singleborough) • Grendon Underwood • Haddenham (Haddenham, South End) • Halton • Hardwick • Hillesden • Hoggeston • Hogshaw (Fulbrook, Hogshaw) • Hulcott • Ickford • Ivinghoe (Greatgap, Horton, Ivinghoe, Ivinghoe Aston, Ringshall) • Kingsey • Kingswood (Kingswood, Tetchwick) • Leckhampstead • Lillingstone Dayrell with Luffield Abbey (Lillingstone Dayrell, Luffield Abbey) • Lillingstone Lovell • Little Horwood • Long Crendon • Ludgershall • Maids Moreton • Marsh Gibbon (Marsh Gibbon, Little Marsh, Summerstown) • Marsworth (Marsworth, Startop's End) • Mentmore (Crafton, Ledburn, Mentmore) • Middle Claydon (Middle Claydon, Verney Junction) • Mursley • Nash • Nether Winchendon • Newton Longville • North Marston • Oakley (Addingrove, Little London, Oakley) • Oving • Padbury • Pitchcott • Pitstone (Barley End, Pitstone, Pitstone Green, Pitstone Hill) • Poundon • Preston Bissett • Quainton (Quainton, Shipton Lee) • Quarrendon (Berryfields) • Radclive-cum-Chackmore (Radclive, Chackmore) • Shabbington • Shalstone • Slapton (Grove, Horton Wharf, Slapton) • Soulbury (Bragenham, Chelmscote, Hollingdon, Soulbury, Stockgrove) • Steeple Claydon • Stewkley (North End, Stewkley, Stewkley Dean) • Stoke Hammond • Stoke Mandeville • Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell (Bishopstone, Hartwell, Lower Hartwell, Sedrup, Stone) • Stowe (Boycott, Dadford, Lamport, Stowe) • Swanbourne (Nearton End, Swanbourne) • Thornborough • Thornton • Tingewick • Turweston • Twyford • Upper Winchendon • Waddesdon (Eythrope, Waddesdon, Wormstone) • Water Stratford • Watermead • Weedon (East End, Weedon, Weedon Hill) • Westbury • Westcott • Weston Turville (Bye Green, Weston Turville) • Whaddon • Whitchurch • Wing (Ascott, Burcott, Littleworth, Wing) • Wingrave (Burston, Nup End, Rowsham, Wingrave) • Woodham • Worminghall • Wotton Underwood
Former Districts
and Boroughs
Former
Constituencies
List of Parliamentary constituencies in Buckinghamshire • List of places in Buckinghamshire • List of civil parishes in Buckinghamshire

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