Stewkley

Stewkley
St Michael & All Angels parish church
Stewkley  Stewkley shown within Buckinghamshire
Population	1,840 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid reference	SP853261
Civil 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
Website	Stewkley Parish Council
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Stewkley is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England. The village is about 5 miles (8 km) east of Winslow and about 4 miles (6 km) west of Leighton Buzzard. The civil parish includes the hamlets of North End and Stewkley Dean.

The toponym Stewkley is derived from the Old English for woodland clearing with tree stumps.^{[citation needed]} In the Domesday Book of 1086 records it as Stiuclai.^{[citation needed]}

The principal manor in Stewkley was once held by the son of Geoffrey Chaucer, who was an occasional visitor to the village. The Church of England parish church of St Michael and All Angels is one of the least-altered of England's 6,000 Norman churches.^{[citation needed]} There is a Methodist chapel in High Street South. St Michael's Church of England Combined School teaches 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).^{[citation needed]}

Stewkley has one of the longest village high streets in Britain, a title also claimed by Combe Martin in Devon, whose 2 miles (3 km) high street is not as continuously populated as Stewkley's 1.7 miles (2.7 km) high street. Southeast of the village is Aylesbury Vale Golf Club.

Notable people

• Alastair Cook, England cricket captain, was married at the Methodist Chapel in December 2011.^[2]
• The Earl and Countess of Orkney live at Tythe House.
• Darren Gough, former England cricketer, previously lived in and played football for the village.
• Al Murray, stand-up comedian, best known for his persona "The Pub Landlord", was born in Stewkley.

References

Further reading

• Page, W.H., ed. (1925). A History of the County of Buckingham, Volume 3. Victoria County History. pp. 420–426. 
• Pevsner, Nikolaus (1960). Buckinghamshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 242–243. ISBN 0-14-071019-1. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stewkley.

• St Michael and All Angels Church.
• Stewkley Village Website
• Stewkley Green
• Stewkley Players
• Stewkley Village Hall
• Stewkley Film Archive & Movie site

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