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Stowe Landscape Garden

Stowe
Stowe, The Parish Church of St Mary - geograph.org.uk - 155669.jpg
Parish church of the Assumption of the Blesséd Virgin Mary
Stowe is located in Buckinghamshire
Stowe
Stowe
Stowe shown within Buckinghamshire
Population 886 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference SP6836
Civil parish
  • Stowe
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Buckingham
Postcode district MK18
Dialling code 01280
Police Thames Valley
Fire Buckinghamshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
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UK
England
Buckinghamshire
52°01′05″N 1°01′01″W / 52.018°N 1.017°W / 52.018; -1.017Coordinates: 52°01′05″N 1°01′01″W / 52.018°N 1.017°W / 52.018; -1.017

Stowe is a civil parish and former village about 2 miles (3 km) northwest of Buckingham in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Boycott, Dadford and Lamport.

Stowe House is a Grade I listed country house in the parish and is occupied by Stowe School.

A corner of the Silverstone Circuit is named after Stowe.

Stowe's toponym probably refers to an ancient holy place of great significance in Anglo-Saxon times. The manor of Stowe predates the Norman conquest of England. The Domesday Book of 1086 assessed the manor at five hides. It listed William the Conqueror's half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux as the manor's feudal overlord and the Norman brothers-in-arms Robert D'Oyly and Roger d'Ivry as his tenants. D'Oyly founded Oxford Castle and he and d'Ivry founded a college of secular canons there. Not long after 1086 the manor of Stowe was transferred to the college's endowment, confirmed by a charter of Henry I in 1130.


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