Stoke Poges

Hamlets within Stoke Poges parish include:

• Hollybush Hill
• Stoke Green
• West End
• Wexham Street

In the name Stoke Poges, stoke means "stockaded (place)" that is staked with more than just boundary-marking stakes. In the Domesday Book of 1086, the village was recorded as Stoche. William Fitz-Ansculf, who held the manor in 1086 (in the grounds of which the Norman parish church was built), later became known as William Stoches or William of Stoke. Two hundred years later Amicia of Stoke, heiress to the manor, married Robert Pogeys, Knight of the Shire, and the village eventually became 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 being an English attempt at Pugeys which ironically meant "worthless thing".David Carpenter. 2020. Henry III : The Rise to Power and Personal Rule 1207 – 1258. New Haven: Yale University Press. 360. The spelling appearing as "Stoke Pocheys", if applicable to this village, may suggest the pronunciation of the second part had a slightly more open "o" sound than the word "Stoke".Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP40/647; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no647/aCP40no647fronts/IMG_0029.htm; second entry, with "London" in the margin, & with defendants Thomas Clerk, William Adam, John Lambard & John Spykernell of Stoke Pocheys.

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A manor house at Stoke Poges was built before the Norman Conquest and was mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book. In 1555 the owner, Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, pulled down much of the existing fortified house. He replaced it with a large Tudor brick-built house, with numerous chimneys and gables.{{Cite web |title=Manor House, Stoke Poges - 1165194 {{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165194 |access-date=2022-05-31 |website=historicengland.org.uk |language=en}} In 1599, it was acquired by Sir Edward Coke, who is said to have entertained Queen Elizabeth I there in 1601.{{cite book |last1=Norsworthy |first1=Laura |title=The Lady of Bleeding Heart Lane |year=1935 |publisher=John Murray |location=London |page=16}}

A few decades later, the married lady of the manor, Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck, the daughter of Sir Edward Coke, had a love affair with Robert Howard, a member of parliament. The affair's discovery was received as a scandal upon the three people involved, and in 1635 Lady Frances was imprisoned for adultery. She later escaped from prison to France, and eventually returned and lived at Stoke Poges Manor for a time. She died at Oxford in 1645 at the court of King Charles I.{{cite book |last=Norsworthy |first=Laura |title=The Lady of Bleeding Heart Lane |year=1935 |publisher=John Murray |location=London |pages=292}}

In August 1647, Charles I spent a night or two there, as a prisoner, on his removal from Moor Park, Rickmansworth on the way to his execution.{{cite web |last1=Anon |title=Stoke Poges Parish Council |url=https://www.stokepogesparishcouncil.gov.uk/the-manor-house |website=Stoke Poges Parish Council |access-date=12 December 2024}}{{cite web |title=Parishes: Stoke Poges |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol3/pp302-313 |website=British History Online |access-date=27 May 2025}}

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Later the manor came into the possession of Thomas Penn, a son of William Penn who founded Pennsylvania and was its first proprietor. Thomas Penn held three-fourths of the proprietorship. The manor property remained in his family for at least two generations, as his son John Penn "of Stoke" also lived there. Thomas Gray's 1750 poem "A Long Story" describes the house and its occupants.{{cite web |url=http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=lost |title=A Long Story |publisher=Thomas Gray Archive |date=December 2012 |access-date=1 March 2013}} Sir Edwin Henry Landseer was a frequent visitor to the house and rented it as a studio for some time. His most famous painting, The Monarch of the Glen (1851), is said to have been created at Stoke Poges, with the deer in the park used as models.{{Cite news |date=2017-10-26 |title=Hotel claims Monarch of the Glen stag was English |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-41761725 |access-date=2022-05-31}}

In 2012, the property was sold by South Bucks District Council for a sum of £300,000. It was bought by a property developer and was subsequently advertised for sale at £13.5 million.{{cite news |last=Dunhill |first=Lawrence |date=11 May 2012 |title='Why was historic Stoke Poges Manor House sold for so little?' |url=https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/9701227.why-was-historic-stoke-poges-manor-house-sold-for-so-little/ |work=Bucks Free Press |access-date=27 May 2025}}

Stoke Poges has a primary school called The Stoke Poges School.{{Cite web |title=The Stoke Poges School - GOV.UK |url=https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/130328 |access-date=2022-05-31 |website=get-information-schools.service.gov.uk |language=en}} It was rated 'Good' by Ofsted in 2022.{{Cite web|title=Ofsted – Short inspection on The Stoke Poges School|url=https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/21/130328|access-date=21 January 2021|website=Gov.uk|date=19 December 2020}} On 6 May 1985, four pupils drowned at Land's End during a school trip. Their bereaved parents were angered by Buckinghamshire County Council's offer of £3,500 compensation per child.{{cite episode|date=8 September 1985|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3e05e332917b49f8d3c1f62e3d6af3c3|title=10 O'Clock News|series=BBC News|network=BBC One|last=Leeming|first=Jan (presenter)|time=6:00}}

A Sikh faith secondary school called Pioneer Secondary Academy opened in 2022.{{Cite web |title=Pioneer Secondary Academy |url=https://pioneersecondaryacademy.com/ |access-date=2022-05-31 |website=Pioneer Secondary Academy |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |last=Singh |first=Tarvinder |title=Home |url=https://sikhacademiestrust.com/ |access-date=2022-05-31 |website=Sikh Academies Trust |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Pioneer Secondary Academy - GOV.UK |url=https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/149204 |access-date=2022-05-31 |website=get-information-schools.service.gov.uk |language=en}} On the site had been Khalsa Secondary Academy which had been rated 'Inadequate ' by Ofsted in 2019 and subsequently closed.{{Cite web|title=Inspection Report on Khalsa Secondary Academy|url=https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/23/139897|access-date=20 January 2021|website=Gov.uk}}{{Cite web |date=2021-10-08 |title=High Court reveals Khalsa Academies Trust's safeguarding failures |url=https://schoolsweek.co.uk/safeguarding-failures-expose-in-trusts-failed-high-court-challenge/ |access-date=2022-05-31 |website=schoolsweek.co.uk |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Termination notice to Khalsa Secondary Academy |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/termination-notice-to-khalsa-secondary-academy |access-date=2022-05-31 |website=GOV.UK |date=22 July 2014 |language=en}}

Larchmoor School in Gerrards Cross Road was a major school in England for deaf children which was opened in 1967 by Elizabeth II and ran by the Royal National Institute for Deaf People. It closed in the late 20th century.{{Cite web|title=Larchmoor School, Stoke Poges {{!}} UCL UCL Ear Institute & Action on Hearing Loss Libraries|url=https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-rnid/2012/03/30/larchmoor-school-stoke-poges/|access-date=21 January 2021|publisher=University College London}}{{Cite journal|last=Booth|first=L.G.|year=1997|title=The design and construction of timber hyperbolic paraboloid shell roofs in Britain: 1957–1975|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41613779|journal=Construction History|volume=13|pages=78|jstor=41613779|issn=0267-7768}}{{Cite journal|date=April 1967|title=Larchmoor School for the Deaf|journal=The Royal National Institute for the Deaf|volume=22|pages=99–103}}

Halidon House School was founded 1865, based in Slough and then in 1948 moved to Framewood Manor, Framewood Road. It was a girls school which closed in 1983.{{Cite book|last=Fraser|first=Maxwell|title=The History of Slough|publisher=Slough Corporation|year=1980|isbn=|location=Slough|pages=94|chapter=9|oclc=58814912}}{{Cite web|title=Frame Wood Manor (Halidon House School), Stoke Poges - 1124349 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1124349|access-date=21 January 2021|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Archives|first=The National|title=The Discovery Service|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_q=halidon%20house%20school|access-date=21 January 2021|website=discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk|language=en-GB}}

St James Roman Catholic School moved from Richmond in 1830 to Baylis House. The school closed in 1907. Rafael Merry del Val, Cardinal Secretary of State under Pope Pius X was educated at the school.{{Cite web |last=Harris |first=L.H. |date=7 March 2023 |title=Baylis House |url=http://www.sloughhistoryonline.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=slough&f=generic_objectrecord.htm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&%3Dcms_con_core_identifier=sl-sl-2864_baylishouse-i-00-000.tif&t=sl-sl-baylishouse&s=62NppyCH2wr}}{{Cite web |date=7 March 2023 |title=Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust - Baylis House |url=https://bucksgardenstrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Baylis_Park-Slough.pdf}}

Stoke House School in Stoke Green was a preparatory school from 1841 to 1913.{{Cite web|title=Stoke House, Stoke Poges – 1317440 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317440|access-date=21 January 2021|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=1879–1940|title=Items relating to Stoke House and other schools records|url=http://archives.buckscc.gov.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=D-X+801%2f18&pos=214|access-date=21 January 2020|website=Buckcc.gov.uk|id=D-X 801/18}} In 1913, Ted Parry the headmaster relocated the school to Seaford and later it was renamed Stoke Brunswick School.{{Cite web|date=1886–1959|title=Stoke Brunswick School|url=https://www.thekeep.info/collections/search?s=AMS%2F6911&qa%5Bkeyword_reference_type%5D=0&qa%5Bpartner%5D=&qa%5Btitle%5D=&qa%5Bperson%5D=&qa%5Bplace%5D=&qa%5Bsubject%5D=&qa%5Bformat%5D=&qa%5Bidentifier%5D=&qa%5Bdate_from%5D=&qa%5Bdate_to%5D=&cbav=2&cbadvsearchquery=|access-date=21 January 2021|website=The Keep, East Sussex}}

Long Dene School, moved from Jordans, Buckinghamshire to the Manor House in 1940. In 1945, the school relocated to Chiddingstone Castle, Kent.{{Cite web |title=The Long Dene Community |url=https://longdene.wordpress.com/ |access-date=2023-02-22 |website=The Long Dene Community |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Smithson |first=Sue |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44915980 |title=Community adventure : the story of Long Dene School |year=1999 |publisher=New European Publications |isbn=1-872410-13-8 |location=London |oclc=44915980}}

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Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is believed to have been written in the churchyard of Saint Giles. The church is a Grade I listed building.{{Cite book|last=Hoyle|first=Joshua Fielding|title=The Country Churchyard – Stoke Poges Church|publisher=Church Army Press|year=1920|location=Oxford, UK|language=English}}{{Cite web|title=Stoke Poges Church|url=https://www.stokepogeschurch.org/|access-date=30 October 2021|website=stokepogeschurch.org}}{{NHLE|num=1164966|desc=Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges|grade=I|access-date=24 September 2022}} Other churches have claimed the honour, including St Laurence's Church, Upton-cum-Chalvey and St Mary's in Everdon, Northamptonshire.

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Gray is buried in a tomb with his mother and aunt in the churchyard.{{NHLE|num=1124345|desc=Tomb of Thomas Gray, his mother Dorothy Gray and his aunt Mary Antrobus in churchyard of St Giles Church, Stoke Poges|grade=II|access-date=24 September 2022}} John Penn commissioned James Wyatt to design a monument which is a Grade II* listed building. It bears lines from the Elegy.{{NHLE|num=1124346|desc=Gray's Monument, Stoke Poges|grade=II*|access-date=24 September 2022}} The monument stands adjacent to St Giles' church and owned by the National Trust.{{Cite web|title=Gray's Monument and Gray's Field Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire|url=https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/grays-monument-and-grays-field-stoke-poges-buckinghamshire|access-date=30 October 2021|website=National Trust|language=en}}

A lychgate which is now located in the middle of the churchyard was designed by John Oldrid Scott and completed in 1887.{{Cite news|last=Blake|first=Rev. Vernon|date=22 November 1887|title=Stoke Poges Church|work=The Times newspaper|url=https://www.thetimes.com/|access-date=12 February 2021}} In 2022, it became a national heritage asset being listed Grade II.{{NHLE|num=1475583|desc=Lych gate and attached stone and flint wall, Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges|grade=II|access-date=24 September 2022}}

A gothic style rectory having a battlemented parapet was built by James Wyatt, 1802–1804 for John Penn of Stoke Park. It is now a private residence called Elegy House.{{NHLE|num=1332767|desc=St Giles' Vicarage|grade=II|access-date=24 September 2022}}

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There are two public recreation grounds: Bells Hill and Plough Lane.{{Cite web |title=Recreation Grounds {{!}} Stoke Poges Parish Council |url=https://www.stokepogesparishcouncil.gov.uk/recreation-grounds-and-village-green |access-date=2023-03-05 |language=en-GB}} In the late 20th century, large private sports facilities operated for the main benefit of Glaxo Laboratories staff at Sefton Park{{Cite web |title=Hitachi Data Systems: Sefton Park - A history - Promotional Item - Computing History |url=http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/11297/Hitachi-Data-Systems-Sefton-Park-A-history |access-date=2023-03-05 |website=computinghistory.org.uk}}{{Cite web |title=Sefton Park {{!}} Stoke Poges Parish Council |url=http://www.stokepogesparishcouncil.gov.uk/stoke-poges-history/historic-buildings/sefton-park/ |access-date=2023-03-05 |language=en-GB}} and for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Paints Division{{Cite journal |last=Johnson |first=Alan Woodworth |title=John Donald Rose, 2 January 1911 - 14 October 1976 |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.1977.0017 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|year=1977 |volume=23 |language=en |pages=449–463|doi=10.1098/rsbm.1977.0017 |s2cid=70495969 |url-access=subscription}} at Duffield House, Stoke Green.{{Cite web |title=Duffiled House Conference Brochure by Joshua Keys - Issuu |url=https://issuu.com/joshuakeys25/docs/duffield_house_conference_brochure |access-date=2023-03-05 |website=issuu.com |language=en}}

Badminton: Stoke Poges Badminton Club has for many decades run in the Village Centre.{{Cite web |title=Stoke Poges Badminton Club {{!}} Stoke Poges Parish Council |url=http://www.stokepogesparishcouncil.gov.uk/stoke-poges/clubs-societies/stoke-poges-badminton-club/ |access-date=2023-03-05 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Badminton Club at Stoke Poges Village Centre |url=https://www.stoke-poges-centre.org.uk/badminton |access-date=2023-03-05 |website=stoke-poges-centre.org.uk}}

Bowls: Stoke Poges Bowls Club was founded in 1978 and closed in 2020. The bowling green was situated in the grounds of the Polish Association in Church Lane. The bowling green had opened in 1949 by St. Helens Cable and Wire Company.{{Cite web |title=Stoke Poges Bowls Club {{!}} Stoke Poges Parish Council |url=http://www.stokepogesparishcouncil.gov.uk/stoke-poges/clubs-societies/stoke-poges-bowls-club/ |access-date=2023-03-05 |language=en-GB}}

Cricket: Stoke Green Cricket Club in Stoke Green has been playing there since 1879 with support of the then landowner, Howard-Vyse of Stoke Place.{{Cite web |title=Stoke Green Cricket Club |url=https://www.stokegreencc.co.uk/}} Stoke Poges Golf Club at Stoke Park used to run a cricket club in the early 20th century, playing home matches in Farnham Royal.{{Cite web |title=Cricket 1911 |url=https://archive.acscricket.com/cricket/1911/280/ |access-date=2023-03-05 |website=archive.acscricket.com}}

Darts: In 2023 darts teams from the Village Centre and the Rose and Crown public house in Stoke Poges, compete in the Chalfont and District Darts League.{{Cite web |title=The Chalfont & District Darts League - Home |url=https://cddl.leaguerepublic.com/index.html |access-date=2023-03-05 |website=cddl.leaguerepublic.com}}{{Cite web |title=Stoke Poges Village Centre Social Club |url=https://www.stoke-poges-centre.org.uk/social-club |access-date=2023-03-05 |website=stoke-poges-centre.org.uk}}

Football: Stoke Poges Football Club plays on the Bells Hill recreation ground.{{Cite web |title=Stoke Green Rovers FC {{!}} Stoke Poges Parish Council |url=http://www.stokepogesparishcouncil.gov.uk/stoke-poges/clubs-societies/football-club/ |access-date=2023-03-05 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Stoke Poges Saints First {{!}} East Berkshire Football League |url=https://fulltime.thefa.com/displayTeam.html?divisionseason=905394580&teamID=331525662 |access-date=2023-03-05 |website=fulltime.thefa.com}}

Golf: Stoke Park golf course was designed by Harry Colt for Nicholas Lane Jackson who founded it in 1908 as part of England's first golf and country club. It was known as Stoke Poges Golf Club.{{Cite web |title=Golf {{!}} Stoke Poges Parish Council |url=http://www.stokepogesparishcouncil.gov.uk/stoke-poges/recreation-facilities/golf-2/ |access-date=2023-03-05 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=History of Stoke Park - |url=https://www.stokepark.com/history-of-stoke-park/ |access-date=2023-03-05 |language=en-GB}} The South Buckinghamshire Golf Academy consisted of a 9 holes golf course and a golf driving range. It was opened in 1994 and owned by Buckinghamshire County Council. It closed down after the granting of a planning application in 2018 to turn it into a public Country Park.{{Cite web |title=Buckinghamshire Council - Planning Application |url=https://pa.chilternandsouthbucks.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=P8X3T6OHGZU00&activeTab=summary}} The South Buckinghamshire Golf Course, formerly known as Farnham Park Golf Course, is an 18-hole pay and play course, set in 130 acres of mature wooded parkland owned by Buckinghamshire Council.{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://www.thesouthbuckinghamshire.co.uk/ |access-date=2023-03-05 |website=The South Buckinghamshire |language=en}} In 2023 there were two golf clubs using the course: South Buckinghamshire Golf Club{{Cite web |title=Noticeboard |url=https://www.southbucksgolfclub.co.uk/noticeboard |access-date=2023-03-05 |website=sbgc-live |language=en}} and Farnham Park Golf Club. The latter was established at the course in 1977.{{Cite web |title=Home - Farnham Park Golf Club |url=https://www.farnhampark.co.uk/ |access-date=2023-03-05 |website=farnhampark.co.uk}} Wexham Park Golf Centre in Wexham Street, straddles Stoke Poges and Wexham Parishes. It has a variety of golf facilities with a nine hole course being located in Stoke Poges Parish.{{Cite web |title=Wexham Park Golf Centre |url=https://www.wexhamparkgolfcentre.co.uk/ |access-date=2023-03-05 |website=wexhamparkgolfcentre.co.uk}}

Padel: In 2023, Buckinghamshire Council submitted plans to build two padel tennis courts at the South Buckinghamshire Golf Course.{{Cite web |title=Buckinghamshire Council - Planning Application |url=https://pa.chilternandsouthbucks.gov.uk/online-applications/caseDetails.do?action=dispatch&keyVal=RNV516ESJ0H00&caseType=Application}}

Table Tennis: Stoke Poges Table Tennis Club was founded in 1950. Play used to take place in the pavilion at Sefton Park. In the 21st century it plays at St Andrew's Church Centre in Rogers Lane.{{Cite web |title=Stoke Poges Table Tennis Club {{!}} Stoke Poges Parish Council |url=http://www.stokepogesparishcouncil.gov.uk/stoke-poges/clubs-societies/stoke-poges-table-tennis-club/ |access-date=2023-03-05 |language=en-GB}}

Tennis: Stoke Poges Lawn Tennis Club operates on Bells Hill recreation ground and commenced there in 1949.{{Cite web |title=Stoke Poges Lawn Tennis Club – Play tennis in the heart of the village |url=https://www.stokepogestennisclub.co.uk/ |access-date=2023-03-05 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Stoke Poges Tennis Club {{!}} Stoke Poges Parish Council |url=http://www.stokepogesparishcouncil.gov.uk/stoke-poges/clubs-societies/stoke-poges-tennis-club/ |access-date=2023-03-05 |language=en-GB}}

• In 1931, Aldous Huxley wrote his book Brave New World which mentions Stoke Poges in it. He frequently visited Stoke Poges golf course.{{cite book |last=Huxley |first=Aldous |author-link=Aldous Huxley |title=Brave New World |location=New York |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers |year=1998 |edition=First Perennial Classics |isbn=0-06-092987-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/bravenewworld00huxl_1}}
• In 1957, British Pathé filmed The Vital Vaccine at Sefton Park where Glaxo Laboratories created and manufactured the 'Polyvirin', Britain's Polio vaccine. The Chairman of Glaxo, Sir Harry Jephcott is filmed. It is announced at the start of the film, that it is the former home of the music hall star, Vesta Tilley{{Cite web |title=The Vital Vaccine |url=https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=British Pathé |language=en-GB}}
• In 1963, the film I Could Go On Singing with Judy Garland's character visits St Giles' parish church with her son.{{Citation |last=Neame |first=Ronald |title=I Could Go on Singing |date=1963-08-14 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057168/ |type=Drama, Music |access-date=2023-03-06 |publisher=Barbican Films}}
• In 1964, the golf course at Stoke Park was the setting of a golf match in the James Bond film Goldfinger, played between the principal characters.{{cite web|url=http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/g/goldfinger.html|title=Goldfinger film locations (1964)}} The map on the dial in Bond's car that tracks Goldfinger's shows Stoke Poges.
• In 1969, Pinewood film studios hired a chemistry laboratory at Fulmer Research Institute for use as a film set for the film The Chairman (also known as The Most Dangerous Man in the World), starring Gregory Peck.{{cite AV media |people=J. Lee Thompson (Director), Gregory Peck (Actor) |title="The Chairman" (also known as "The Most Dangerous Man in the World") |medium=Film |publisher=Twentieth Century Fox |location=Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, England |year=1969}}
• In 1981, the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only filmed its opening sequence, when Bond visits his wife's grave, in the graveyard at St Giles' Church.{{cite web|url=http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/f/ForYourEyesOnly.html|title=For Your Eyes Only film locations|access-date=7 August 2014|archive-date=26 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126023059/http://movie-locations.com/movies/f/ForYourEyesOnly.html|url-status=dead}}
• In 1990, 'Inspector Lynley' crime novel Well-Schooled in Murder by Elizabeth George, and its television adaptation, are set in Stoke Poges.
• In 1996, Nick Hancock's Football Nightmares Nick Hancock is trying to hitchhike to the Victoria Ground in Stoke-on-Trent, but keeps getting dropped off in, or just outside, Stoke Poges.{{Citation |title=Nick Hancock's Football Nightmares (1996) |date=1996-10-21 |url=https://watch.plex.tv/movie/nick-hancocks-football-nightmares |access-date=2023-03-06 |language=en}}
• In 1997, in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, Stoke Park hotel doubles as the interior of the Hamburg hotel, where Bond (Pierce Brosnan) drinks his vodka, renews his past relationship with Carver's wife Paris (Teri Hatcher) and struggles with Dr. Kaufman (Götz Otto).{{Cite web |date=2021-09-09 |title=Over 25 Years of 007 Filming Locations in England |url=https://fiewpupgrade.flyingatom.co.uk/over-25-years-of-007-filming-locations-in-england |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=Filming in England |language=en-US}}
• In 1998, the novel Sharpe's Triumph by Bernard Cornwell was published. In the novel, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington's dragoon orderly Daniel Fletcher mentions that he is from Stoke Poges: Sharpe replies: "Never heard of it."{{Cite web |title=Sharpe's Triumph {{!}} Bernard Cornwell |url=https://www.bernardcornwell.net/books/sharpes-triumph/ |access-date=2023-03-07 |website=bernardcornwell.net}}
• In 2001 and 2004, Stoke Park is featured in the films Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Layer Cake (2004), Wimbledon (2004), and Bride and Prejudice (2004).{{Cite web |title=History of Stoke Park - |url=https://www.stokepark.com/history-of-stoke-park/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |language=en-GB}}
• In 2007, part of the television series Jekyll was filmed on the boardwalk and surrounding area.
• In 2010, the BBC drama series Vexed (series 1, episode 2 – with Toby Stephens and Lucy Punch) was largely filmed in the grounds and inside Stoke Court – which had earlier been Bayer Group UK's conference centre.
• In 2017, the British media caused a furore after the National Galleries of Scotland had bought The Monarch of the Glen painting by Sir Edwin Landseer for £4 million and the view by some that it may have been painted at Stoke Park.{{Cite news|date=26 October 2017|title=Hotel claims Monarch of the Glen stag was English|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-41761725|access-date=26 January 2021}}{{Cite web|title=Sir Edwin Landseer|url=https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/artists/sir-edwin-landseer|access-date=26 January 2021|website=nationalgalleries.org|language=en}}
• In 2021, the lease of Stoke Park was bought by Reliance Industries (RIL) for £57 million from the International Group. Later in the year Stoke Park closed for refurbishment.{{Cite web|title=Luxury golf club and hotel to shut for two years after Indian billionaire buys it for £57 million|url=https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/19363737.stoke-park-shut-two-years-indian-billionaire-mukesh-ambani-buys-57-million/|access-date=30 October 2021|website=Bucks Free Press|date=10 June 2021 |language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Luxury Hotel, Spa, Golf & Country Club in Buckinghamshire {{!}} Stoke Park|url=https://www.stokepark.com/|access-date=30 October 2021|website=stokepark.com}}{{Cite news|last=Barman|first=Arijit|title=Reliance all set to buy iconic British Country Club Stoke Park for 60 mn pounds|work=The Economic Times|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/property-/-cstruction/reliance-all-set-to-buy-iconic-british-country-club-stoke-park-for-60-mn-pounds/articleshow/82201745.cms|access-date=30 October 2021}}{{Cite web|last=Cradock|first=Matt|date=30 May 2021|title=Stoke Park Country Club To Shut For Two Years After Takeover|url=https://www.golfmonthly.com/news/stoke-park-country-club-to-shut-for-two-years-after-takeover-234888|access-date=30 October 2021|website=Golf Monthly Magazine}}
• In 2021, Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens featured in the BBC programme Great British Railway Journeys presented by Michael Portillo.{{Cite web|title=BBC Two – Great British Railway Journeys, Series 12, West Ruislip to Windsor|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vlmh|access-date=30 October 2021|publisher=BBC|language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|title=BBC's Great British Railway Journey's next stop is Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens|url=https://www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/news/bbcs-great-british-railway-journeys-stoke-poges-memorial-gardens/|access-date=30 October 2021|website=Buckinghamshire Council|language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|title=Bucks memorial gardens set to feature on popular BBC TV show|url=https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/19253932.bbcs-great-british-railway-journeys-feature-stoke-poges-memorial-gardens/|access-date=30 October 2021|website=Bucks Free Press|date=23 April 2021 |language=en}}
• In 2021, in his keynote speech at the Conservative Party Conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson referred to Thomas Gray and Stoke Poges, about a levelling up vision in terms of an imbalanced society.{{Cite web|date=6 October 2021|title=Affluent Stoke Poges welcomes plan to 'take pressure off' by levelling up|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/06/affluent-stoke-poges-welcomes-plan-to-take-pressure-off-by-levelling-up|access-date=30 October 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Levelling up is Johnson's answer to chill penury|url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2021/8-october/news/uk/levelling-up-is-johnson-s-answer-to-chill-penury|access-date=30 October 2021|website=churchtimes.co.uk}}

• Augustus Henry Eden Allhusen (1867–1925), English politician, resident at Stoke Court, Rogers Lane (1867–1925){{cite book|title=Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1901 |url=https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1901londuoft#page/2/mode/1up|year=1901|publisher=Dean & Son|location=London |page=2}} Retrieved 20 January 2021
• Christian Allhusen (1806–1890), Danish-English chemical manufacturer, resident at Stoke Court, Rogers Lane.{{cite book |title=Chemist and Druggist, Volume 36 |publisher=Benn Brothers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=alU9AQAAMAAJ&q=Christian+Allhusen&pg=PA61 |year=1890 |page=61 |access-date=20 January 2021}}
• John Charles Bell (1844–1924), 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of London and businessman, resident at Framewood Manor, Framewood Road (1905–1924).{{Cite web|last=South Bucks District Council|date=19 July 2011|title=Framewood Road Character Appraisal|url=https://www.southbucks.gov.uk/conservationareas|access-date=26 January 2021|website=southbucks.gov.uk|page=22}}{{Cite web|last=Slough Windsor Eton Observer|date=26 January 2021|title=Death of Slough Magistrate|url=http://www.sloughhistoryonline.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=slough&f=generic_objectrecord_postsearch.htm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&m=advanced_sform&tomonth=02&tc1=e&fromday=30&frommonth=01&toyear=1924&name=bell&fromyear=1924&today=14&partner=slough&s=khOU0Uj8cqg|access-date=|website=sloughhistoryonline.org.uk}}
• John Beresford (1866–1944), 5th Baron Decies, Army officer, civil servant and baron, resident at Sefton Park (1905–1917){{rp|67}}{{Cite book|last=Rigby|first=Lionel|title=Stoke Poges – A Buckinghamshire village through 1000 years|publisher=Phillimore|year=2000|isbn=9781860771316}}
• Robert Brooke-Popham (1878–1953), Air Chief Marshal in the Royal Air Force and Governor of Kenya, resident at The Woodlands, Hollybush Hill.{{cite book|last=|first=|title=Kelly's directory of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. 1935|year=1935|publisher=Kelly's Directories Ltd.|isbn=|location=|pages=Stoke Poges|oclc=1114860090}}
• Wilberforce Bryant (1837–1906), English businessman, owner of Bryant & May match manufacturer and Quaker, resident at Stoke Park (1887-1906).{{Cite book|last=Pugh|first=Peter|title=Stoke Park the first 1000 years|publisher=Icon Books|year=2008|isbn=978-184-046-946-2|location=|pages=}} {{rp|70–77}}{{Cite ODNB|title=Bryant, Wilberforce (1837–1906), match manufacturer|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-46787|access-date=26 January 2021|year=2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/46787|last1=Corley|first1=T. A. B.}}
• Edward Coke (1552–1634), Lord Chief Justice of England and politician, resident at the Manor House (1598-1634).{{rp|25–28}}
• Abraham Darby IV (1804–1878), English ironmaster, resident at Stoke Court, Rogers Lane (1851–1872).{{London Gazette|issue=21409|page=329|date=8 February 1853}}
• Walter de Frece (1870–1935), British theatre impresario and politician, resident at Sefton Park with his wife, Vesta Tilley in the 1920s.{{Cite web |title=Recollections of Vesta Tilley {{!}} WorldCat.org |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/754988460 |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=worldcat.org |language=en}}
• Wallace Charles Devereux (1893–1952), English businessman and engineer, founder of Fulmer Research Institute in Stoke Poges and resident at The Meads, Park Road.{{Cite web|date=23 January 2021|title=Fulmer Research Institute, timeline|url=http://fulmerresearchinstitute.uk/timeline-ct/|access-date=|website=}}
• John Thomas Duckworth (1748–1817), Admiral in the Royal Navy and baronet spent his childhood at the Vicarage, Park Road, where his father lived, being the Vicar of Stoke Poges (1754–1748).{{Cite web|title=Duckworth, Sir John Thomas (1748–1817). {{!}} History of Parliament Online|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/duckworth-sir-john-thomas-1748-1817|access-date=21 January 2021|website=historyofparliamentonline.org}}{{Cite web|year=2020|others=Item B|title=Stoke Poges Heritage Walk – Map|url=https://www.southbucks.gov.uk/stokepogesmemorialgardens|access-date=21 January 2021|website=Buckinghamshire.gov.uk|publisher=Buckinghamshire Council}}
• Henry Godolphin (1648–1733) Dr., Provost of Eton College and Dean of St Paul's cathedral, resident at Baylis House in 18th century.{{Cite ODNB |title=Godolphin, Henry (1648–1733), college head and dean of St Paul's |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-10878 |access-date=2023-03-06 |year=2004 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/10878}}{{Cite web |title=Buckinghamshire Sites – Parks – Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust |url=https://bucksgardenstrust.org.uk/research-and-recording/locally-important-sites-parks/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |language=en-GB}}
• Alfred Frank Hardiman (1891-1949), sculptor, resident at Farthing Green house.{{Cite web |title=Alfred Frank Hardiman |url=http://www.londonremembers.com/subjects/alfred-frank-hardiman/ |access-date=2022-05-31 |website=London Remembers |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Alfred Frank Hardiman RA, RS, FRBS - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 |url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1216985328 |access-date=2022-05-31 |website=sculpture.gla.ac.uk}}
• Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon (1514–1561), 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, politician, 1555 completed building of the Manor house.{{Cite web|title=MANOR HOUSE, Stoke Poges – 1165194 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165194|access-date=31 January 2021|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}
• Elizabeth Hatton (1578–1646), 2nd wife of Edward Coke, resident at the Manor House.{{Cite ODNB |title=Hatton, Elizabeth, Lady Hatton [née Lady Elizabeth Cecil; other married name Elizabeth Coke, Lady Coke] (1578–1646), courtier |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-68059 |access-date=2023-02-14 |year=2004 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/68059 |last1=Aughterson |first1=Kate}}
• George Howard (1718–1796), Field Marshal in British Army and politician, resident at Stoke Place, Stoke Green (c.1764–1796).{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13900?docPos=4|title=Sir George Howard|year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/13900 |access-date=13 July 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42564|title=Parishes: Stoke Poges, A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 3 (1925) |pages=302–313|access-date=14 July 2014}}
• Richard Howard-Vyse (1883–1962), Major General and Honorary Colonel of the Royal Horse Guards, resident at Stoke Place, Stoke Green (1883–1962){{Cite book|last=Anglesey|first=The Marquess of|title=A History of the British Cavalry: Volume 5: 1914–1919 Egypt, Palestine and Syria|publisher=Pen & Sword Books Ltd|year=1994|isbn=9780850523959|location=|pages=}}
• Richard William Howard Howard Vyse (1784–1853), Major General and Egyptologist, born in Stoke Poges and resident at Stoke Place, Stoke Greens.1851 England Census HO107/1718; Folio: 579; Page: 17
• Alfred Webster 'Morgan' Kingston (1875–1936), tenor, opera singer, resident in Templewood Lane.{{Cite web |title=Morgan Kingston |url=http://www.historicaltenors.net/english/kingston.html |access-date=2022-05-31 |website=historicaltenors.net}}{{Cite web |title=Morgan Kingston |url=https://www.ourmansfieldandarea.org.uk/content/topics/business/industry/mining/morgan-kingston |access-date=2022-05-31 |website=Our Mansfield & Area |language=en}}
• Henry Labouchere (1798–1869), 1st Baron Taunton, British Whig politician, resident at Stoke Park (1848–1863).{{rp|62–66}}
• Henry Martin (Marten) (c.1562–1641), King's Advocate for James I and Judge of Admiralty Court is reported to have been born at Stoke Poges.[https://books.google.com/books?id=hgo5AQAAMAAJ&dq=sir+henry+martin+1562+to+1641&pg=PA43 Brief Lives John Aubrey Clarendon Press, 1898 – Great Britain]
• Noel Mobbs (1878–1959), businessman, founder of Slough Estates, resident at Stoke Park (1928–1959).{{Cite web|title=Sir Noel Mobbs {{!}} English Bridge Union|url=https://www.ebu.co.uk/biographies/noel-mobbs|access-date=26 January 2021|website=ebu.co.uk}}{{rp|188–213}}
• William Moleyns (1378–1425), politician, administrator, knight to Henry V, resident at the Manor House.{{Cite book|last=Neale|first=John Preston|title=Views of the most interesting Collegiate and Parochial Churches in Great Britain – St Giles' Church, Stoke Poges – The Rev Arthur Bold|publisher=John le Keux|others=Volume 1|year=1824|isbn=|location=London|pages=|oclc=939440882}}{{Cite journal|last=Bryant Bevan|first=The Rev. D.H.|year=1948|title=Stoke Poges Church|journal=The Country Churchyard|publisher=R.G. Baker & Co. Ltd, Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire|pages=17}}{{citation |first=L. S. |last=Woodger |article=Moleyns, Sir William (1378–1425), of Stoke Poges, Bucks |title=The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386–1421 |editor1=J.S. Roskell |editor2=L. Clark |editor3=C. Rawcliffe |year=1993 |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/moleyns-sir-william-1378-1425 |access-date=31 January 2021}}
• Bernard Oppenheimer (1866–1921), diamond merchant and philanthropist, resident at Sefton Park, Bells Hill (1917-1921).{{London Gazette|issue=32776|page=8839|date=12 December 1920}}
• Sydney Godolphin Osborne (1808–1889), Lord, cleric, writer, philanthropist, vicar of Stoke Poges (1832–1841).{{Cite ODNB|title=Osborne, Lord Sydney Godolphin (1808–1889), philanthropist|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-20883|access-date=1 February 2021|year=2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/20883}}
• Granville Penn (1761–1844), author, scriptural geologist and civil servant, resident at Stoke Park (1761–1844).{{cite ODNB |first=Charlotte |last=Fell-Smith |chapter-url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21847 |chapter=Penn, Granville (1761–1844) |editor-first=Rev. Richard |editor-last=Smail |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/21847 |access-date=25 January 2021}}{{rp|61}}
• John Penn (1760–1834), Chief Proprietor of Province of Pennsylvania, politician and writer, resident at Stoke Park (1760–1834).{{acad|id=PN776J|name=Penn, John}}
• Thomas Penn (1702–1775), son of William Penn and proprietor of Province of Pennsylvania, with three-fourths holding, resident at the Manor House, Stoke Park (1760–1775).{{Cite journal |last=Wainwright |first=Nicholas B. |year=1963 |title=The Penn Collection |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20089651 |journal=The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography |volume=87 |issue=4 |pages=393–419 |jstor=20089651 |issn=0031-4587}}
• Borradaile Savory (1855–1906), English clergyman and baronet, resident at The Woodlands, Hollybush Hill (1855–1906).{{acad|id=SVRY875B|name=Savory, Borradaile}}
• William Scovell Savory (1826–1895), British Surgeon and baronet, resident at The Woodlands, Hollybush Hill (1884–1895).Framewood Road Conservation Area Character Appraisal report (19 July 2011).South Bucks District Council
• Philip Stanhope (1694–1773), 4th Earl of Chesterfield, British statesman and diplomat, resident at Baylis house in 18th century.{{Cite ODNB |title=Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773), politician and diplomatist |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-26255 |access-date=2023-03-06 |year=2004 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/26255|last1=Cannon |first1=John |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8}}{{Cite web |last=Fraser |first=Maxwell |title=Salt Hill |url=http://www.sloughhistoryonline.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=slough&f=generic_objectrecord.htm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&=cms_con_core_identifier=sl-sl-max_chapter07-d-02-000.pdf&t=sl-sl-maxwellfraser&s=l2tspUO2_Dg |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=sloughhistoryonline.org.uk}}
• Vesta Tilley (Matilda Alice Powles) (1864–1952), music hall performer, resident at Sefton Park in the 1920s with her husband Walter de Frece.{{Cite book|last=De Frece|first=Lady|title=Recollections of Vesta Tilley|publisher=Hutchinson|year=1934|isbn=|location=|pages=|oclc=754988460}}
• Alexander Wedderburn (1733–1805), 1st Earl of Rosslyn, Lord High Chancellor, resident at Baylis House, late 18th century and early 19th century.{{Cite ODNB |title=Wedderburn, Alexander, first earl of Rosslyn (1733–1805), lord chancellor |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-28954 |access-date=2023-03-06 |year=2004 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/28954|last1=Murdoch |first1=Alexander}}

• Ruth Durlacher (1876–1946), Irish tennis player and golfer, resident at the White House and Pinegrove, Stoke Green, in early 20th century.{{Cite web |title=Page 2941 {{!}} Issue 34156, 3 May 1935 {{!}} London Gazette {{!}} The Gazette |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34156/page/2941 |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=thegazette.co.uk}}{{Cite book |title=1935 Kelly's Directory of Berkshire and Oxfordshire |publisher=Kelly's Directories Ltd |year=1935 |pages=Stoke Poges}}
• Walter Evelyn Gilliat (1869-1963), England footballer and Minister in the Church of England, resident at Duffield House where his father, Algernon, lived, Stoke Green{{Cite web |title=FamilySearch.org |url=https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/9WSV-SFT/rev.-walter-evelyn-gilliat-1869-1963 |access-date=2022-05-31 |website=ancestors.familysearch.org}}{{Cite web |title=England Players - Walter Gilliat |url=http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamPlyrsBios/PlayersG/BioGilliatWE.html |access-date=2022-05-31 |website=englandfootballonline.com}}
• Nick 'Pa' Lane Jackson (1849–1937), founder of Stoke Park, sports administrator and author, resident Stoke Park (1908–1928).{{Cite book|last=Jackson|first=Nick Lane|title=Sporting Days and Sporting Ways|publisher=Hurst and Blacket|year=1932|isbn=|location=London, UK|pages=|oclc=1073277963}}{{rp|100–186}}
• Jacques Laffite (born 1943) the French Formula One racing driver who won six Grands Prix for Ligier during the late 1970s and early 1980s, lived in Stoke Poges during some of his racing career.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
• William Molyneux, 2nd Earl of Sefton (1772–1838), sportsman and gambler, resident at Stoke Farm, now known as Sefton Park (1795–1838).{{Cite book|last=Rigby|first=Lionel|title=Stoke Poges – A Buckinghamshire village through 1000 years|publisher=Phillimore|year=2000|isbn=9781860771316|location=|pages=74|chapter=20}}
• Edward Hagarty Parry (1855–1931), International footballer & school headmaster, resident at Stoke House School, Stoke Green, (1855-1913).{{cite book |title=England: Player by player |publisher=Green Umbrella Publishing |last=Betts |first=Graham |year=2006 |isbn=1-905009-63-1 |page=187}}

• Comer Group, is a real estate company which c.2010 became the owner of Stoke Court for part of its residential portfolio.{{Cite web|title=Residential Portfolio UK|url=https://www.thecomergroup.com/residential-portfolio/uk/future-sites/page/1|access-date=30 October 2021|website=thecomergroup.com}}{{Cite web|last=Kingsley|first=Nick|date=9 February 2014|title=Landed families of Britain and Ireland: (108) Allhusen of Elswick Hall, Stoke Court and Bradenham Hall|url=https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2014/02/108-allhusen-of-stoke-court.html|access-date=30 October 2021|website=Landed families of Britain and Ireland}}
• Hitachi Data Systems, is a subsidiary of Hitachi. It provides technology and services relating to digital data. UK Headquarters at Sefton Park, Bells Hill, Stoke Poges.{{Cite web|date=22 January 2021|title=Hitachi Vantara – HDS partner contact information|url=https://www.hitachivantara.com/uk/go/partnerday09/venue.html|access-date=|website=HitachiVantara.com}}
• International Group operates a group of companies in the leisure, sales, marketing, management, healthcare services and property development and ownership. Registered at Stoke Park until 2021, when the lease was sold to Reliance Industries{{Cite web|date=22 January 2021|title=International Group official website|url=https://igroup.co.uk/|access-date=|website=igroup.co.uk}}{{Cite news|last1=Hammond|first1=George|last2=Raval|first2=Anjli|last3=Parkin|first3=Benjamin|date=23 April 2021|title=Mukesh Ambani buys 'Goldfinger' Stoke Park golf club for £57m|work=Financial Times|url=https://www.ft.com/content/61be8bbd-10ac-431d-9d9c-04512ad78860 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/61be8bbd-10ac-431d-9d9c-04512ad78860 |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription|access-date=30 October 2021}}
• Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), an Indian multinational conglomerate, on the Global 500 list, bought the lease of Stoke Park in 2021{{Cite web|title=International Group – Founded in 1964, International Group is a family owned business.|url=https://igroup.co.uk/|access-date=30 October 2021|language=en-GB}}
• Servier Laboratories Ltd, is part of a French centric international pharmaceutical group. UK Headquarters at Sefton Park, Bells Hill, Stoke Poges.{{Cite web|date=20 January 2021|title=Servier Laboratories UK HQ Contact|url=https://www.servier.co.uk/|access-date=|website=Servier.co.uk}}
• Urenco Ltd, a nuclear fuel company, operating internationally running uranium enrichment plants. Headquarters at Sefton Park, Bells Hill, Stoke Poges.{{Cite web|date=22 January 2021|title=Urenco Ltd – Official website|url=https://www.urenco.com/contact|access-date=|website=Urenco.com}}
• Fulmer Research Institute, a pioneer contract research and development organisation. Its Headquarters was in Hollybush Hill, Stoke Poges from 1946 to 1990.{{cite journal |last=Liddiard |first=E A G|year=1965|title=The Fulmer Research Institute|journal=Physics Bulletin|volume=16 |issue=5 |pages=161–169|doi=10.1088/0031-9112/16/5/001}}
• Glaxo Laboratories Ltd, now part of GSK, a fermentation and vaccine research laboratory at Sefton Park, Bells Hill, Stoke Poges from 1948 to 1982: (NB: see 'In Media' section above - 1957, British Pathé filmed The Vital Vaccine at Sefton Park) {{Cite journal|last=Macrae|first=T. F.|year=1957|title=The Research Work of Glaxo Laboratories Limited|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/82979|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences|volume=146|issue=923|pages=181–193|doi=10.1098/rspb.1957.0003|jstor=82979|pmid=13420142|bibcode=1957RSPSB.146..181M|s2cid=33221639|issn=0080-4649|url-access=subscription}}
• Miles Laboratories, a USA pharmaceutical and life sciences company. UK headquarters in Stoke Court, Rogers Lane, Stoke Poges from 1959 to 1978 when Bayer acquired it.{{cite journal |title=Stoke Poges West End Conservation Area |journal=South Bucks District Council |date=19 July 2011 |page=19 |url=https://www.southbucks.gov.uk/conservationareas}}{{Cite web|title=History|url=https://www.bayer.com/en/history/1974-1988|access-date=21 January 2021|website=bayer.com|language=en}}

At the 2001 UK census, the Stoke Poges electoral ward had a population of 4,839. The ethnicity was 93.3% white, 1.3% mixed race, 4.8% Asian, 0.3% black and 0.3% other. The place of birth of residents was 88.1% United Kingdom, 1.6% Republic of Ireland, 2.5% other Western European countries, and 7.8% elsewhere. Religion was recorded as 76.5% Christian, 0.2% Buddhist, 0.7% Hindu, 2.7% Sikh, 0.5% Jewish, and 1.1% Muslim. 10.6% were recorded as having no religion, 0.2% had an alternative religion and 7.6% did not state their religion.{{cite web |title=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Statistics.gov.uk |url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadAreaSearch.do?a=3&i=1001&m=0&s=1208862463765&enc=1&areaSearchText=Stoke+Poges&areaSearchType=14&extendedList=false&searchAreas=Search |access-date=20 April 2008}}

The economic activity of residents aged 16–74 was 40.8% in full-time employment, 11.6% in part-time employment, 12.6% self-employed, 1.8% unemployed, 1.5% students with jobs, 3.1% students without jobs, 16.8% retired, 6.7% looking after home or family, 2.5% permanently sick or disabled and 2.5% economically inactive for other reasons. The industry of employment of residents was 15.4% retail, 13.4% manufacturing, 6.9% construction, 21.1% real estate, 9.2% health and social work, 7.3% education, 8.8% transport and communications, 3.5% public administration, 3.4% hotels and restaurants, 2.8% finance, 0.8% agriculture and 7.4% other. Compared with national figures, the ward had a relatively high proportion of workers in real estate, transport and communications. According to Office for National Statistics estimates, during the period of April 2001 to March 2002 the average gross weekly income of households was £870, compared with an average of £660 in South East England. Of the ward's residents aged 16–74, 28.4% had a higher education qualification or the equivalent, compared with 19.9% nationwide.

In 2011, The Daily Telegraph deemed Stoke Poges as Britain's eighth richest village and the third richest village in Buckinghamshire.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/luxuryhomes/8410974/Britains-richest-villages.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110905033339/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/luxuryhomes/8410974/Britains-richest-villages.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 September 2011 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |title=Britain's richest villages |access-date=3 April 2011}}

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{{Commons category|Stoke Poges}}

• {{cite EB1911|wstitle=Stoke Poges |volume=25 |short=x}}
• [https://www.stokepogesparishcouncil.gov.uk/ Stoke Poges Parish Council]
• [https://www.stoke-poges-centre.org.uk/ Stoke Poges Village Centre]
• [https://www.stokepogeschurch.org/ Stoke Poges Parish Church of St Andrew and St Giles]
• [https://e-voice.org.uk/stoke-poges-society/ The Stoke Poges Society]

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