Stoke Poges

It is pleasant to know that he warmly returned her love and that he now rests by her side in the churchyard at Stoke Poges, which is always associated with the _Elegy_.

Selections from Five English Poets Thomas Gray 1743

The course itself is known as Stoke Poges and was created by Harry Colt, one of the great designers of the early 20th century.

unknown title 2009

Guests can make their own way to Stoke Poges or meet at London's Hanover Square where from they're taken to a 17th-century country pile in Buckinghamshire for a long list of loved-up activities.

Clubs picks of the week 2011

What was missing from the Today programme item – oddly, since this was a journey made by a writer – was a sense of that other matchless attraction of cemeteries: the words engraved on the headstones, not just of those who once commanded applause from list'ning senates, but also, as Thomas Gray mused in the churchyard at Stoke Poges, those whose graves may be marked by "uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture".

Cemeteries: Far from the madding crowd | Editorial 2010

I will back the Member for Stoke Poges against him; and show that the dashing young Member for Islington is a far sounder man than either.

Roundabout Papers 2006

We can play Sunningdale, Wentworth, Stoke Poges, all those stuffed shirt clubs.

Hacker - Death at the Member-Guest Bartlett, James Y. 2004

His singing voice is incredible, in his spare time he strolls out past the wire-mesh fighter runways looking for bigger planes-for he loves to practice the bass part to "Diadem" as the Flying Fortresses take off at full power, and even so you can hear him, bone-vibrating and pure above the bombers, all the way to Stoke Poges, you see.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

The poet Thomas Gray, who stayed frequently at Stoke Poges in the vicinity, is enthusiastic concerning the beauty of the Beeches ina letter to Horace Walpole in 1737.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Ten minutes later they were at Stoke Poges and had started their first round of Obstacle Golf.

Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932

"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day" has immortalised the otherwise unimportant district of Stoke Poges -- a parish embracing numerous small hamlets.

What to See in England Gordon Home 1923