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Stoke-Poges in Buckingham County England History and GeographySTOKE-POGES, a parish in the hundred of STOKE, county of BUCKINGHAM, 2 miles (N.) from Slough, containing, with a part of the town of Slough, 1073 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £7. 17., and in the patronage of Lord F. G. Osborne. The church is dedicated to St. Giles. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A fair is held here on Whit-Tuesday. A school, now conducted on the National system, was erected, at the expense of the parishioners, in 1798, and is supported by sundry bequests, including one by Lady Elizabeth Hatton, in 1645, the whole producing an annual income of about £30. 'The hospital of Stoke-Poges,' now containing a master, four poor men, and two women, was founded, in 1557, by Lord Hastings of Sloughborough, who endowed it with a rent-charge of about £53, for the support of a chantry priest and four bedesmen. It was originally built in Stoke park, and its noble founder, becoming one of its inmates, ended his days within its walls, and was buried in the chapel attached. The ancient building having been pulled down, in 1765, in pursuance of an act obtained by Mr. Penn, who also augmented the endowment, the hospital was refounded on its present site. The vicar is eligible to the mastership, and the visitors are the Dean of Windsor and the Provost of Eton. The churchyard of this parish is the scene of 'Gray's Elegy,' and contains the remains of the poet himself; and in the field adjoining a large sarcophagus was erected, in 1799, by Mr. Penn of Stoke Park, to the memory of Mr. Gray, who died at Cambridge in 1771, when his body was removed hither, and deposited, with those of his mother and aunt, in a vault constructed at his own expense. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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