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Dist:0.4km<br/>A large hospital spread out within the park. View north from Church Lane near Wexham Road.
©David Hawgood
Dist:0.7km<br/>Looking north-east across Church Lane by the school, just at the corner of the grid square
©David Hawgood
Dist:1.0km<br/>A short guide to the church, its age (it is part Saxon, part Norman and part Tudor), the origin of the Stoke Poges name, and the history of the ‘Great House’ nearby, is at http://www.stoke-poges.com/church/stgiles.shtml See also the story of whose unmarked tomb is at Plot 118 in this famous churchyard http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2_ZstVBZSfIC&lpg=PA1&pg=PA116#v=onepage&q=&f=true and [[901079]]
©D Gore
Dist:1.0km<br/>Not far from Thomas Gray’s large memorial, is this unmarked tomb, an imposing example of the sepulchral art of Napoleon’s time. It is totally anonymous, identified on the churchyard record only as Plot 118, and now hidden behind the Vestry that has since been built onto the north side of the Chancel. The clue to who lies here came from a note in a book about Irish history. The answer is that the 73 year old Thomas Dawson (then Lord Cremorne) of the Dartrey estate in Co. Monaghan [[897437]] removed the bodies of his first wife and his four deceased children from their graves at Dartrey, and brought them here in 1798 when he and his second wife Philadelphia decided to leave Ireland for good. The cause of this move appears to have been the turbulence of the 1790s in Ireland culminating in the unsuccessful but bloody revolution of 1798. Added to that, this faithful old Unionist found that his heir, Richard Dawson, was actually supporting the rebels. The Dawsons settled in Chelsea, but Stoke Poges was selected for the new family tomb because both he and his wife, the granddaughter of William Penn, had relations there. Yet the anonymity of their grave is puzzling. Despite the Dawson family motto ‘Toujours Propice’ (Always in Favour), this peaceful country parish may not have been particularly welcoming to Irish interlopers with ostentatious memorials! The Cremorne hatchment, which hangs high up in a dark corner of the church [[919768]], seems to be the only indication that an Irishman and his family finally found sanctuary here “far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife” - Full story pp.116-125 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2_ZstVBZSfIC&lpg=PA1&pg=PA116#v=onepage&q=&f=true . For more about this ancient building see http://www.stokepogeschurch.org/pdf files/St Giles tour.pdf
©D Gore
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©John Salmon
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©John Salmon
Dist:1.0km<br/>Following years of strife in the Ireland of the 1790s, this 73 year old Irish peer left his home on the Dartrey estate [[897437]] in County Monaghan to settle in London. With the help of Penn relations at Stoke Poges, he prepared a family tomb in St Giles churchyard [[901079]] where he and all his family were buried. But it is an unmarked grave, recorded only as Plot 118 on the churchyard record. Despite the Dawson family motto ‘Toujours Propice’ (Always in Favour), the peaceful country parish of St Poges may not have been particularly welcoming to Irish interlopers with ostentatious memorials. This Cremorne hatchment, which still hangs high up in a dark corner of the church, seems to be the only indication that an Irishman and his family finally found sanctuary here “far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife” - Full story pp.116-125 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2_ZstVBZSfIC&lpg=PA1&pg=PA116#v=onepage&q=&f=true . For more about this old church http://www.stokepogeschurch.org/pdf files/St Giles tour.pdf
©D Gore
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©John Salmon
Dist:1.0km<br/>The memorial of Thomas Gray - erected in 1788.
©The Dewdrops
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©Peter Ross
Dist:1.2km northwest<br/>Just west of the junction with the B416.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:1.2km south<br/>This modern church is on Wexham Road and shares a site with St Ethelbert's School, part of which can be seen to the left.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.2km south<br/>The shops are in Knolton Way, photo looking west from the end of Moat Drive.
©David Hawgood
Dist:1.2km northeast<br/>
©Peter Ross
Dist:1.2km west<br/>The elegant bridge at Stoke Park built in 1798 and named after Humphrey Repton who designed the new landscape at Stoke Park.
©don cload

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