Stoke Poges

Geography

• Hollybush Hill
• Stoke Green
• West End
• Wexham Street

Etymology

Stoke Poges Manor House

Education

St Giles' Church

Sport

In media

• In 1931, Aldous Huxley wrote his book Brave New World which mentions Stoke Poges in it. He frequently visited Stoke Poges golf course.
• In 1957, British Pathé filmed The Vital Vaccine at Sefton Park where Glaxo Laboratories created and manufactured the 'Polyvirin', Britain's Polio vaccine. The Chairman of Glaxo, Sir Harry Jephcott is filmed. It is announced at the start of the film, that it is the former home of the music hall star, Vesta Tilley
• In 1963, the film I Could Go On Singing with Judy Garland's character visits St Giles' parish church with her son.
• In 1964, the golf course at Stoke Park was the setting of a golf match in the James Bond film Goldfinger, played between the principal characters. The map on the dial in Bond's car that tracks Goldfinger's shows Stoke Poges.
• In 1969, Pinewood film studios hired a chemistry laboratory at Fulmer Research Institute for use as a film set for the film The Chairman (also known as The Most Dangerous Man in the World), starring Gregory Peck.
• In 1981, the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only filmed its opening sequence, when Bond visits his wife's grave, in the graveyard at St Giles' Church.
• In 1990, 'Inspector Lynley' crime novel Well-Schooled in Murder by Elizabeth George, and its television adaptation, are set in Stoke Poges.
• In 1996, Nick Hancock's Football Nightmares Nick Hancock is trying to hitchhike to the Victoria Ground in Stoke-on-Trent, but keeps getting dropped off in, or just outside, Stoke Poges.
• In 1997, in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, Stoke Park hotel doubles as the interior of the Hamburg hotel, where Bond drinks his vodka, renews his past relationship with Carver's wife Paris and struggles with Dr. Kaufman.
• In 1998, the novel Sharpe's Triumph by Bernard Cornwell was published. In the novel, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington's dragoon orderly Daniel Fletcher mentions that he is from Stoke Poges: Sharpe replies: "Never heard of it."
• In 2001 and 2004, Stoke Park is featured in the films Bridget Jones's Diary, Layer Cake, Wimbledon , and Bride and Prejudice.
• In 2007, part of the television series Jekyll was filmed on the boardwalk and surrounding area.
• In 2010, the BBC drama series Vexed was largely filmed in the grounds and inside Stoke Court – which had earlier been Bayer Group UK's conference centre.
• In 2017, the British media caused a furore after the National Galleries of Scotland had bought The Monarch of the Glen painting by Sir Edwin Landseer for £4 million and the view by some that it may have been painted at Stoke Park.
• In 2021, the lease of Stoke Park was bought by Reliance Industries for £57 million from the International Group. Later in the year Stoke Park closed for refurbishment.
• In 2021, Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens featured in the BBC programme Great British Railway Journeys presented by Michael Portillo.
• In 2021, in his keynote speech at the Conservative Party Conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson referred to Thomas Gray and Stoke Poges, about a Levelling up policy of the [Boris Johnson government|levelling up] vision in terms of an imbalanced society.

Notable natives and residents

• Augustus Henry Eden Allhusen, English politician, resident at Stoke Court, Rogers Lane
• Christian Allhusen, Danish-English chemical manufacturer, resident at Stoke Court, Rogers Lane.
• John Charles Bell, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of London and businessman, resident at Framewood Manor, Framewood Road.
• John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies, Army officer, civil servant and baron, resident at Sefton Park
• Robert Brooke-Popham, Air Chief Marshal in the Royal Air Force and Governor of Kenya, resident at The Woodlands, Hollybush Hill.
• Wilberforce Bryant, English businessman, owner of Bryant & May match manufacturer and Quaker, resident at Stoke Park.
• Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice of England and politician, resident at the Manor House.
• Abraham Darby IV, English ironmaster, resident at Stoke Court, Rogers Lane.
• Walter de Frece, British theatre impresario and politician, resident at Sefton Park with his wife, Vesta Tilley in the 1920s.
• Wallace Charles Devereux, English businessman and engineer, founder of Fulmer Research Institute in Stoke Poges and resident at The Meads, Park Road.
• John Thomas Duckworth, Admiral in the Royal Navy and baronet spent his childhood at the Vicarage, Park Road, where his father lived, being the Vicar of Stoke Poges.
• Henry Godolphin Dr., Provost of Eton College and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, resident at Baylis House in 18th century.
• Alfred Frank Hardiman, sculptor, resident at Farthing Green house.
• Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, politician, 1555 completed building of the Manor house.
• Elizabeth Hatton, 2nd wife of Edward Coke, resident at the Manor House.
• George Howard, Field Marshal in British Army and politician, resident at Stoke Place, Stoke Green.
• Richard Howard-Vyse, Major General and Honorary Colonel of the Royal Horse Guards, resident at Stoke Place, Stoke Green
• Richard William Howard Howard Vyse, Major General and Egyptologist, born in Stoke Poges and resident at Stoke Place, Stoke Greens.
• Alfred Webster 'Morgan' Kingston, tenor, opera singer, resident in Templewood Lane.
• Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton, British Whig politician, resident at Stoke Park.
• Henry Martin , King's Advocate for James I and Judge of Admiralty Court is reported to have been born at Stoke Poges.
• Noel Mobbs, businessman, founder of Slough Estates, resident at Stoke Park.
• William Moleyns, politician, administrator, knight to Henry V, resident at the Manor House.
• Bernard Oppenheimer, diamond merchant and philanthropist, resident at Sefton Park, Bells Hill.
• Sydney Godolphin Osborne, Lord, cleric, writer, philanthropist, vicar of Stoke Poges.
• Granville Penn, author, scriptural geologist and civil servant, resident at Stoke Park.
• John Penn, Chief Proprietor of Province of Pennsylvania, politician and writer, resident at Stoke Park.
• Thomas Penn, son of William Penn and proprietor of Province of Pennsylvania, with three-fourths holding, resident at the Manor House, Stoke Park.
• Borradaile Savory, English clergyman and baronet, resident at The Woodlands, Hollybush Hill.
• William Scovell Savory, British Surgeon and baronet, resident at The Woodlands, Hollybush Hill.
• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, British statesman and diplomat, resident at Baylis house in 18th century.
• Vesta Tilley , music hall performer, resident at Sefton Park in the 1920s with her husband Walter de Frece.
• Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, Lord High Chancellor, resident at Baylis House, late 18th century and early 19th century.

Sports

• Ruth Durlacher, Irish tennis player and golfer, resident at the White House and Pinegrove, Stoke Green, in early 20th century.
• Walter Evelyn Gilliat, England footballer and Minister in the Church of England, resident at Duffield House where his father, Algernon, lived, Stoke Green
• Nick 'Pa' Lane Jackson, founder of Stoke Park, sports administrator and author, resident Stoke Park.
• Jacques Laffite the French Formula One racing driver who won six Grands Prix for Ligier during the late 1970s and early 1980s, lived in Stoke Poges during some of his racing career.
• William Molyneux, 2nd Earl of Sefton, sportsman and gambler, resident at Stoke Farm, now known as Sefton Park.
• Edward Hagarty Parry, International footballer & school headmaster, resident at Stoke House School, Stoke Green,.

Notable organisations

• Comer Group, is a real estate company which c.2010 became the owner of Stoke Court for part of its residential portfolio.
• Hitachi Data Systems, is a subsidiary of Hitachi. It provides technology and services relating to digital data. UK Headquarters at Sefton Park, Bells Hill, Stoke Poges.
• International Group operates a group of companies in the leisure, sales, marketing, management, healthcare services and property development and ownership. Registered at Stoke Park until 2021, when the lease was sold to Reliance Industries
• Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), an Indian multinational conglomerate, on the Global 500 list, bought the lease of Stoke Park in 2021
• Servier Laboratories Ltd, is part of a French centric international pharmaceutical group. UK Headquarters at Sefton Park, Bells Hill, Stoke Poges.
• Urenco Ltd, a nuclear fuel company, operating internationally running uranium enrichment plants. Headquarters at Sefton Park, Bells Hill, Stoke Poges.
• Fulmer Research Institute, a pioneer contract research and development organisation. Its Headquarters was in Hollybush Hill, Stoke Poges from 1946 to 1990.
• Glaxo Laboratories Ltd, now part of GSK, a fermentation and vaccine research laboratory at Sefton Park, Bells Hill, Stoke Poges from 1948 to 1982:
• Miles Laboratories, a US pharmaceutical and life sciences company. UK headquarters in Stoke Court, Rogers Lane, Stoke Poges from 1959 to 1978 when Bayer acquired it.

Demography