Stowe (Buckinghamshire)

Stowe is a village in the Aylesbury Vale District, Buckinghamshire, England and is located two miles north-west of Buckingham. A curve in the Silverstone Circuit is named after the village.

Stowe House, among other things, famous for his English landscape garden, Stowe School, a boarding school founded in 1923 is ( boarding school ) home.

History

Originally the village was built during the reign of the Anglo-Saxons. Stowe was named Distinguished some of the Anglo-Saxons after an ancient, sacred place. It was the mid-17th century, leaving the first time, as the noble politician Sir Peter Temple ( 1592-1653 ) docked a large deer park nearby. The small church has been preserved from that time, and Christian worship is held there every Sunday. At the edge of the village are the hamlets of Boycott, Dadford and Lamport.

John Vanbrugh built in 1726 in the gardens of a pyramid that has been dedicated after his death in the same year to the memory of this poet and architect.

Stowe House

Stowe House in the past, was the seat of Viscount Cobham. Today it houses the School of Stowe. Building and garden, which includes many monuments were added to the National Trust in 1990 and the public are partially accessible.

Stowe in movies

Because of its beautiful landscape Stowe was the setting for many films. Inter alia:

• In good times and in difficult days
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Stardust
• Sign of life - Proof of Life
• James Bond The World Is Not Enough
• The Wolfman