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Stoke Poges

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Stoke Poges

Village in Buckinghamshire, southern England, 3 km/2 mi north of Slough; population (2001) 4,850. Stoke Poges inspired Thomas Gray to write his ‘Elegy in a Country Churchyard’; the poet is buried in St Giles church.

The partly Norman church of St Giles dates mainly from the 14th century and includes an unusual 17th-century window, known as the ‘bicycle window’.



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