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Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens

Stoke Poges, Bucks Mon 11 Nov 2019



 

 The main avenue of the Memorial Gardens

 

 

 This urn had four sides for the four seasons - this is Winter

 

 

 

 One of the Parterre Gardens with box hedges

 The Colonnade

 

 

 

 Repton Bridge built in 1792 was resroted in 2003-5. Grad II*

 Stoke Park Mansion was designed by RObert Naismith for John Penn and was completed in 1813

 The Rock and Water Gardens

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Manor House (Grade I listed) built in 1555 for Edward Hastings. Queen Elizabeth I stayed here, King Charles I
was imprisoned here and King WIlliam III was refused entry.

 One of the 500 gated family gardens

 

 

 Stoke Park across the Rock and Water Garden

 

 Stoke Poges Church - Saxon, Norman, Early Gothic and Tudor
     
 Thomas Gray's Tomb (grade II) with a stone plaque on the wall behind
     
 A splendid tree in the churchyard, a few yards from the yew beneath which Gray wrote his elegy

 
     
 The church interior is worth a visit and has some very varied stained (and painted) glass

 and a few interesting monuments

 Stoke Park

 The Manor House

 

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