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    known as Stoke Poges. Robert Poges was the son of Savoyard Imbert Pugeys, valet to King Henry III and later steward of the royal household. Poges and Pocheys...
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    Stoke Park is a private sporting and leisure estate in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire. The mansion building (designed by James Wyatt in 1788) is located...
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    church in the village of Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England. A Grade I listed building, it stands in the grounds of Stoke Park, a late-Georgian mansion...
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  • The Oppenheimer baronetcy, of Stoke Poges in the County of Buckingham, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created in the 1921...
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    poem was completed when Gray was living near the Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges. It was sent to his friend Horace Walpole, who popularised the poem among...
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  • Urenco uses centrifuge enrichment technology. Urenco, headquartered in Stoke Poges, England, is owned one third by the UK government, one third by the Dutch...
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    a Country Churchyard, in the graveyard of St Giles' parish church in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire (though this claim is not exclusive), in 1742. After...
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    Stoke Place is a country house in Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire. Patrick Lamb built Stoke Place in 1690. For about 50 years he was Master Cook to several...
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  • receivership in 1924. In 1917, he purchased the Sefton Park estate, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, where he lived until his death. During that period...
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    Land's End, western Cornwall, England on 6 May 1985. Four pupils from Stoke Poges School drowned after they were swept out to sea. Although the inquest...
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