Stewkley, Buckinghamshire Family History Guide
Stewkley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire.
Alternative names: Stukeley
Other places in the parish include: Littlecote.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1545
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STEWKLEY, a parish, with a village and a hamlet, in Winslow district, Bucks; 5 miles WNW of Leighton-Buzzard r. station It has a post-office under Leighton-Buzzard. Acres, 4,330. Real property, £6,840. Pop., 1,453. Houses, 328. The property is much subdivided.
The living is a vicarage. in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £330. Patron, the Bishop of O. The parochial church is early Norman, has generally been called Saxon, and was recently restored. A small church was lately erected at the S end of the village.
There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, national schools, and charities £26.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Stukeley, 4 miles S.E. Winslow. P. 1262
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
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Administration
- County: Buckinghamshire
- Civil Registration District: Winslow
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham
- Diocese: Post-1844 – Oxford, Pre-1845 – Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, Post-1844 – Mursley
- Poor Law Union: Winslow
- Hundred: Cottesloe
- Province: Canterbury