History of Stoke Poges where Stoke Park Club is located
- According to a local historian Lionel Rigby, the earliest known owner of the manor of Stoke and Ditton (Stoke Park estate)
was Siret the Saxon, vassal of King Harold.
- After the Norman Conquest at the end of the 11th century, Siret was forced out of the manor and William Fitz Ansculf from Picardy was granted a tenancy.
- 1750 is considered as a key date in the development of Stoke Park, stated the clubâs website. However, the history of the Stoke Park estate dates back to the Domesday Book (book was completed in 1086). In 1813, the owner of what was then called the Mansion House (the present Stoke Park Club) and the Manor House wrote what he called an historical and descriptive account of Stoke Poges.
Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens head gardener and cemeteries manager Franzi Cheeseman (left) with Michael Portillo Memorial gardens in Bucks are set to feature in a popular BBC TV series. Presenter Michael Portillo’s visit to Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens, dubbed “Buckinghamshire’s hidden gem”, will be screened next week. The production team of Great British Railway Journeys visited the gardens while filming the 12th series, which focuses on Britain between the World Wars and the 1930s. It is when the Stoke Poges land was acquired by Sir Noel Mobbs, opening as a Garden of Remembrance. In the programme, Mr Portillo helps plant a yew tree in a newly designed part of the gardens – a reference to Thomas Gray’s poem ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’, which was inspired by St Giles’ churchyard – which sits next door to the gardens.