Everything about Stewkley totally explained
Stewkley is a
village in
Buckinghamshire,
England. It is located in the
Aylesbury Vale, about five miles east of
Winslow, four miles west of
Leighton Buzzard.
The village name Stewkley is
Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'woodland clearing with tree stumps'. In the
Domesday Book of
1086 it was recorded as
Stiuclai.
The principal
manor in Stewkley once belonged to the son of
Geoffrey Chaucer, who was an occasional visitor to the village.
The
parish church, dedicated to
St Michael and All Angels, is one of the least-altered of England's 6000
Norman churches. There is also a Methodist Chapel in High Street South, and a school,
St Michael's Church of England Combined School, for children aged 4-11.
In 1969/70 Stewkley was earmarked to be destroyed to make way for the building of London's Third Airport, bigger than Heathrow, but was saved after villagers fought an environmental and political campaign.
It is reputedly has the longest village High Street in Britain, a title also claimed by
Combe Martin in Devon, and
Brinkworth in Wiltshire, whose two mile high street isn't as continuously populated as Stewkley's 1.7 miles of High street.
Famous people
Stewkley's claim to fame is
Al Murray, a
comedian who has had many
television shows his most recent on
ITV,
The Pub Landlord. Al has recently done a performance at the local Village Hall where he raised well over £5,000 towards a refurbishment project for the Hall.
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