Stoke Poges & George Green

Stoke Poges sits in Buckinghamshire around a compact village core built up beside its parish church. Paths lead from the churchyard across narrow lanes and small stretches of green; the churchyard is the place where Thomas Gray is said to have written his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Houses and cottages cluster along the main road and back lanes, and older boundary walls and hedgerows mark former field lines. Local features include a village hall, schoolroom and burial ground that shape the parish footprint and daily movement through the settlement.

George Green lies a short distance from the village, arranged around a small triangular green and a handful of dwellings. Narrow lanes link the green to surrounding lanes and to Stoke Park, the large estate with an ornamental lake, parkland and a country-club complex with a golf course. Agriculture and estate land remain part of the local pattern, and public footpaths and lane connections give a clear sense of how the hamlet and village relate to one another across the parish.