Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Stoke Mandeville, a parish in Bucks, 2½ miles SSE of Aylesbury, which is the nearest railway station. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Aylesbury. Acreage, 1499; population, 356. A monument 26 feet high has been erected to the famous John Hampden. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £244 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The church, erected in 1886, is a small building of flint and brick in the Early English style; and a chapel of ease is in a detached tract 6 miles distant. The old parish church is also occasionally used.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Buckinghamshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Stoke-Mandeville St. Mary | |
Hundred | Aylesbury | |
Poor Law union | Wycombe |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1699.
Churches
Church of England
St. Mary the Virgin (parish church)
The church of St. Mary the Virgin, erected in 1866 on a new site near the centre of the village, about half a mile from the old church, is a building of flint and red brick in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and a western tower containing 8 bells: two of which were added in 1931: there is a monument, with marble effigies, to the memory of three children of Edmund Brudenell, lord of the manor in the time of Queen Elizabeth; the monument was removed here from the old church by faculty in February, 1899: there are 160 sittings, The old church of St. Mary the Virgin, now in ruins, retains in the chancel a piscina and an Early English window, and the nave has a 12th century archway.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Stoke Mandeville was in Wycombe Registration District from 1837 to 1898 and Aylesbury Registration District from 1898 to 1974
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Stoke Mandeville from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stoke-Mandeville (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Stoke Mandeville are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Buckinghamshire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
A full transcript of the Visitation of Buckinghamshire, 1634 is online