STOKE-HAMMOND, a parish, with a village, in the district of Leighton-Buzzard and county of Buckingham; on the Northwestern railway and the Grand Junction canal, 2¾ miles S by E of Bletchley r. station. It has a post-office under Bletchley Station. Acres, 1,470. Real property, £2,044. Pop., 401. Houses, 84. The property is subdivided. S. Lodge and S. House are chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £300.* Patron, the Rev. J. Hart. The church is cruciform and good. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, and a neat new national school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))