Stoke Row
Stoke Row | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Henley-on-Thames | |
Postcode district | RG9 | |
Dialling code | 01491 | |
Police | Thames Valley | |
Fire | Oxfordshire | |
Ambulance | South Central | |
UK Parliament | ||
Website | Stoke Row | |
Stoke Row is a village and
History
The earliest known surviving record of the name is from 1435. Stoke is a common place-name derived from Old English, typically meaning a secondary settlement or outlying farmstead. With the affix "row" it means a "row of houses at Stoke".[2] Stoke Row was a hamlet divided between the ancient parishes, and later civil parishes, of Ipsden, Newnham Murren and Mongewell. It was made a chapelry in 1849.[3] From 1932 it was divided between Ipsden and Crowmarsh, into which Newnham Murren and Mongewell were merged.[4] In 1952 Stoke Row was made a new civil parish.[5]
Parish church
The Church of England parish church of St John the Evangelist was consecrated in 1846.[6] It was designed in 13th-century style by the architect RC Hussey[7] and is built of knapped flint with stone dressings. The church has a north tower with an octagonal belfry and short spire with a wood shingle roof.[8] The ecclesiastical parish is now a member of The Langtree Team Ministry: a Church of England benefice that also includes the parishes of Checkendon, Ipsden, North Stoke, Whitchurch-on-Thames and Woodcote.[9]
Independent chapel
The history of Dissenters meeting in the village dates from 1691.[10] Stoke Row Independent Chapel was built in 1815. It is a Georgian building with flint footings and a hipped roof of slate.[11] In 1884 a Sunday school room was built at the back of the chapel.[12] An extension was built in 1956.[12] In 2015 an outdoor service was held to celebrate the chapel's bicentenary.[13]
Ministers
- 1959–65: Pastor Ernest Dickerson
- 1967–72: Rev John Potts
- 1973–75: Rev Arthur Tilling
- 1977–90: Rev Padre Bernard Railton Bax
- 1990–2004: Rev John Harrington
- 2004–10: Rev David Holmwood
- 2010–16: Revs David and Sonia Jackson
- 2016– present: Rev Mark Taylor
Maharajah's Well
Amenities
The village has two 17th-century
Notable residents
- George Cole (1925–2015), actor, lived in Stoke Row for more than 70 years.[24]
- Carol Decker (born 1957), former singer of T'Pau, in 2006 became a joint tenant of the Cherry Tree Inn which her husband Richard Coates had established.[25] It closed in 2012,[26] but later reopened under new ownership.[citation needed]
- Nick Heyward (born 1961), singer-songwriter and guitarist, has lived in the village since 2014.[27]
Gallery
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The Crooked Billet pub
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The Cherry Tree Inn
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Stoke Row Independent Chapel
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Grave of a Free Czechoslovak airman in St John's parish churchyard
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The Maharajah's Well, with Well Cottage behind the hedge on the right
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Maharajah's well cupola with wording "His Highness the Maharajah of Benares"
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Maharajah's Well - golden elephant inside
References
- Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
- ^ Watts 2010, Stoke Row
- ^ Wilson 1870–72, [1]
- Vision of Britain. University of Portsmouth.
- Vision of Britain. University of Portsmouth.
- ^ Lewis 1931, pp. 220–224.
- ^ a b Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 789
- ^ Historic England. "Church of St John the Evangelist (Grade II) (1369052)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
- ^ "Locations". The Langtree Team Ministry. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
- ^ "Journals of the House of Lords". 1833. p. 306.
- ^ "Independent Chapel". Oxfordshire Historic Churches Trust. 12 September 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
- ^ a b Historic England. "Stoke Row Independent Chapel (Grade II) (1271461)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
- ^ "Celebrating 200 years of worship". Henley Standard. Higgs Group. 27 June 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
- ^ Williamson 1983[page needed]
- ^ Historic England. "Maharajah's Well (Grade II) (1180547)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
- ^ Cherry Tree Inn
- ^ Historic England. "Cherry Tree public house (Grade II) (1059327)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
- ^ Historic England. "The Crooked Billet public house (Grade II) (1180667)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
- ^ The Crooked Billet
- ^ "History". The Crooked Billet. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
- ^ "Steve Hogarth's first Marillion Gig at The Crooked Billet". Archived from the original on 5 June 2012.
- ^ "Stoke Row Census Return 1851". Angela Spencer-Harper. February 2002.
- ^ Stoke Row Church of England Primary School
- Daily Telegraph.
- ^ "The Sugar Loaf gets a makeover and a new style of cuisine (From Bucks Free Press)". Bucksfreepress.co.uk. 15 February 2006. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
- ^ "Last orders for The Cherry Tree". getreading. 19 January 2012. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
- ^ "Nick Heyward". Henley Life: 7. August 2014. Archived from the original on 9 July 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
Sources
- Lewis, Samuel, ed. (1931) [1848]. A Topographical Dictionary of England (Seventh ed.). London: Samuel Lewis. pp. 220–224.
- Sherwood, Jennifer; ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
- Spencer-Harper, Angela (1999). Dipping into the Wells: The Story of the Two Chiltern Villages of Stoke Row and Highmoor Seen Through the Lives of Their Inhabitants. Witney: Robert Boyd Publications. ISBN 1-899536-35-3.
- Watts, Victor, ed. (2010). "Stoke Row". The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 510, 577.
- Williamson, LD (1983). An Illustrated History of The Maharajah's Well. Stoke Row: The Maharajah's Well Trust.
- Wilson, John Marius (1870–72). Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. London and Edinburgh: A Fullarton and Co.