Stokenchurch

Stokenchurch is a village and a municipality in the District of Wycombe in the English county of Buckinghamshire. By its own junction of the south immediately past the village leading M40 ( junction 5 ) and thus existing easy access to the 35 miles to the southeast city of London, it has also become a popular commuter town. The population is nevertheless well below 5,000; the community has remained rural.

Stokenchurch is situated in the Chiltern Hills, about three miles south of Chinnor in Oxfordshire, six miles west of High Wycombe. It is a congregation of the Anglican Church and the Church of St. Peter and Paul, and a Methodist church.

The place and its name are probably Anglo-Saxon origin, 1086 Stokenchurch is mentioned as a forest area of four miles from Aston Rowant located village, traditions from the 13th century show it as " Stockenechurch ".

Until the 19th century the village was a popular resting point and horse-changing - room for carriages and riders on the road between London and Oxford; a number of pubs, restaurants and stables had settled. From this time the landmark Stoke Churchs, the King's Hotel (formerly "The King's Arms Hotel " ), where King Charles II allegedly spent the night with his lover in the 17th century came from. The original link road is now a bridle path, called Colliers Lane, after 1824 a new road (Oxford Road ) was applied.

Came in 1896 Stokenchurch Oxfordshire to Buckinghamshire, and became a center of the chair manufacturing. In the 1930s there were eight companies, the chairs produced for sale to large furniture manufacturers. Nevertheless, always outweighed the agricultural community.