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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stoke Hammond like this:
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.
Stoke Hammond is now part of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how BUCKINGHAMSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Stoke Hammond itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Stoke Hammond in Buckinghamshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6057
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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