Stoke Hammond, Buckinghamshire

Description
Stoke Hamond, a parish, with a village, in Buckinghamshire, on the Grand Junction Canal, 2 3/4 miles S by E of Bletchley Junction station on the main line of the L. & N.W.R. It has a post office under Bletchley station; money order office, Great Brickhill; telegraph office, Bletchley station. Acreage, 1566; population, 312. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to the Fountaine family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £300 with residence. The church, dedicated to St Luke, is cruciform and Perpendicular in style, with central tower containing three bells of about 1537 date, with sanctus bell, which is older. It is built of sandstone, and dates from the early part of the 13th century. There is a curious poor-box and an altar, both dated 1619. It has some very old stained glass and a Norman font.