| Locally our village would has been described by the saying "Stewkley, Bucks - all chickens and no ducks.".
(recalling the time when the county market town of Aylesbury was famous for rearing Ducks). Before signboards were installed, a wandering traveller might ask a resident - "What´s this place ?" depending upon conditions when the question was asked, they 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 . |
![]() Post Office, High Street, looking South |
| Wikipedia 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." |