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Stewkley. Koordinaten: 51° 56′ N, 0° 46′ W |. Stewkley (Vereinigtes Königreich) Stewkley. Lage von Stewkley. Stewkley ist ein Dorf und Civil parish in der Grafschaft Buckinghamshire in England. [1] 2011 lebten 1840 Einwohner im Civil parish Stewkley.
Stewkley is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. The village is about 5 miles (8 km) east of Winslow and about 4 miles (6 km) west of Leighton Buzzard. The civil parish includes the hamlets of North End and Stewkley Dean.
Thomas Stucley (c. 1525 [2] – 4 August 1578), also written Stukeley or Stukley and known as the Lusty Stucley, [3] was an English mercenary who fought in France, Ireland, and at the Battle of Lepanto (1571) and was killed at the Battle of Alcazar (1578) fighting the army of Morocco. He was a Roman Catholic recusant and a rebel against the ...
Stewkley is a village and parish in the Cottesloe Hundred of Buckinghamshire. The village is about five miles east of Winslow and about four miles west of Leighton Buzzard. The civil parish includes the hamlets of North End and Stewkley Dean. The toponym Stewkley is derived from the Old English for woodland clearing with tree stumps.
Fields. Archaeology. William Stukeley FRS FSA (7 November 1687 – 3 March 1765) was an English antiquarian, physician and Anglican clergyman. A significant influence on the later development of archaeology, he pioneered the scholarly investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury in Wiltshire.
Today, Stewkley still relies on it's agricultural foundation together with a mix of small scale industry and some families with breadwinners that commute to London, Milton Keynes and Aylesbury. Our village enjoys a strong community spirit, with more than the expected number of active clubs and organisations.
The Wikipedia entry places Stewkley in "Buckinghamshire, England", "located in the Aylesbury Vale, about five miles east of Winslow, four miles west of Leighton Buzzard." An old saying "Stewkley, Bucks - all chickens and no ducks" recalls a time when Ducks were reared in the villages of the Vale of Aylesbury.
