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©Simon Atkin
Dist:0.1km<br/>This little documented YHA hostel was in 'several rooms in the upper storey of an old posting establishment attached to a confectionery and catering business,' at 92 High Street, Stony Stratford. Another note states that 'the women’s dorm was in the café; the rest of the hostel was in the outhouses.' It operated through difficult times, from 1939 to 1946. This photo taken 2002. Please contact if you have any tales to tell of this youth hostel or old hostels like this.
©John Martin
Dist:0.1km<br/>Roman Catholic Church.
©Cameraman
Dist:0.2km<br/>Grand Georgian house on Mill Lane
©Richard Croft
Dist:0.2km<br/>A modernised shop fronting the former A5 road from London to Holyhead
©Michael Flegg
Dist:0.2km<br/>Almost the same view as [[2743210]] but taken a little further away from the Barnes premises and looking along the south side of the street
©John Baker
Dist:0.2km<br/>The 18th century sundial on The Sundial House http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/569821
©Richard Croft
Dist:0.2km<br/>Two famous coaching inns on Watling Street at Stony Stratford, The Cock http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/569802 and The Bull http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/569774 . Coach travellers brought great stories from further afield and the two inns vied with each other for which could produce the most outlandish tales - hence the saying "Cock and Bull story"
©Richard Croft
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©Ian S
Dist:0.2km<br/>Commemorative plaque at Stony Stratford Eleanor Cross site http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/569461
©Richard Croft
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©Cameraman
Dist:0.2km<br/>Formerly a solicitor's office on the A5.
©Michael Flegg
Dist:0.2km<br/>At west end of Church Street with a sundial dated 1739
©Richard Croft
Dist:0.2km<br/>Tower and graveyard of St Mary's Church - the tower was the only surviving building of the great fire which swept through the lower part of the town in 1742.
©Malcolm Campbell
Dist:0.2km<br/>Today, Stony Stratford is just one constituent part of Milton Keynes but it was once an important town in its own right, a coaching stop on Watling Street, later to become the A5. The legacy of this role is two coaching inns on the High Street, the Bull (seen here in the foreground), and a little further along the Cock. They were known for the tales that travellers would tell and, it is said, gave rise to the expression 'Cock and Bull story'.
©Stephen McKay

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