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.

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