Stoke Poges
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Stoke Poges is a village and civil parish in south-east Buckinghamshire, England. It is centred 3 miles north-north-east of Slough, its post town, and is 2 miles southeast of Farnham Common. In 2021,
St Giles' parish church
Stoke Manor from around 1753
Gray's Monument, Stoke Poges
John Penn (writer)
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John Penn was a British politician and writer who was the chief proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania from 1775 to 1776. He and his cousin, John Penn held unsold property, of 24,000,000 acres, wh
Stoke Poges
…proprietor. Thomas Penn held three-fourths of the proprietorship. The manor property remained in his family for at least two generations, as his son John Penn "of Stoke" also lived there. Thomas Gray's 1750 poem "A Long Story" describes the house and its occupants. Sir Edwin Henry Landseer was a frequent visitor to the…
Bust of Penn
"The Solitude" (1785), designed by Penn. Now part of the Philadelphia Zoo.
Funeral hatchment in Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges