Stokenchurch
Stokenchurch is a village and civil parish in the English county of Buckinghamshire . With its own junction of the M40 (junction 5), which runs south directly past the village, and the resulting good connection to London 35 miles to the south-east, it has also developed into a popular commuter residence. The population is nevertheless well below 5,000; the community has remained rural.
Stokenchurch is in the Chiltern Hills , about three miles south of Chinnor in Oxfordshire , ten kilometers west of High Wycombe . It is a congregation of the Anglican Church with the Church of St. Peter and Paul and a Methodist Church.
The place and its name are believed to be of Anglo-Saxon origin. In 1086 Stokenchurch is mentioned as a wooded area in the village of Aston Rowant , six kilometers away, and records from the 13th century indicate it as "Stockenechurch".
Until the 19th century, the village was a popular resting place and horse-changing place for carriages and riders on the way between London and Oxford ; a number of pubs, restaurants and horse stables had settled. Stokenchurch's landmark, the King's Hotel (formerly "The King's Arms Hotel"), where King Charles II supposedly stayed with his lover in the 17th century, dates from this time . The original connecting road is now a bridle path, called Colliers Lane, after a new road (Oxford Road) was laid in 1824.
In 1896 Stokenchurch came to Buckinghamshire from Oxfordshire and developed into a center for chair manufacturing . In the 1930s there were eight companies that made chairs for sale to large furniture manufacturers. Nevertheless, the agricultural population always predominated.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ N , 0 ° 54 ′ W