Stokenchurch, Oxfordshire

Description
Stokenchurch, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands on one of the Chiltem Hills, 7 miles WNW of Wycombe, and 2 1/2 SE from Aston Rowant station on the Watlington and Princes Risborough branch of the G.W.R. It commands a fine view, has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Tetsworth, and a horse fair on 10 July. The parish includes the hamlets of Beacons Bottom, Horsley's Green, and Water End, and comprises 5920 acres; population of the civil parish, 1780; of the ecclesiastical, 1603. There is a parish council consisting of fourteen members. The manor belongs to the Clerke-Brown family. Mallard's Court and Wormsley are chief residences. Chair-making is carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £100 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church, an ancient building of flint in mixed styles, formerly belonged to Wallingford Priory, and consists of chancel, nave, aisle, S porch, and a low western tower. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels, also a Primitive Methodist chapel at Beacons Bottom.