STOKE POGES


Meaning of STOKE POGES in English

town (parish), South Bucks district, administrative and historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, just north of Slough. It has become a fashionable residential area on the lower slopes of the Chiltern Hills, with a famous golf club on the site of a manor house built by William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania. Thomas Gray, the poet, is buried in the churchyard, reputedly the setting for his Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard (published 1751). Pop. (1991) 4,851.

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