Stewkley Local History Group

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Welcome

Welcome to the Stewkley Local History Group Web site, we are a new Local History Group that remains small enough to hold our meeting in each other's houses.

This site will be updated as and when new information becomes available from members' research projects, more detail about what is being undertaken can be found by following the link or selecting the button on the left hand menu. The information will be of use to members in keeping their own research on - track and for other members to observe what their colleagues are doing. Interested public are most welcome to view our pages, provided that they excuse any errors and omissions.

Our Village

Locally our village is described as "Stewkley, Bucks - all chickens and no ducks. " or depending upon conditions when you ask the question "Where are we ?" you might get the answer "Stewkley, God Help Us". For clarification, however, you might need to know the village is centred on 51.92631° N   0.76222° W .

The Wikipedia entry describes Stewkley as a
"village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Aylesbury Vale, about five miles east of Winslow, four miles 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.

It is reputedly the second longest village in Britain, However first placed Combe Martin's two mile high street is not as continuously populated as Stewkley's 1.7 miles of High street."

About this web site This site is our second revision, it replaces the Sept 2007 issue.

The main image used on this page is <cottage.jpg>, this picturesque cottage is located in our village.
Members with suitable images or photographs for inclusion on the site should contact the web design team.

The links at the top The links at the top of the page are intended to be of use to individuals who are browsing the internet and have found this Stewkley Page, for convenience we link to the "other villages" that sound like ours.

The alternative letter arrangement may also be of interest to people looking for William Stukeley , the british antiqary. Plus a link to the BALH = British Association of Local History.

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