Stokenchurch

Locations

	Amersham Lollard Martyrs

	Aston Clinton

	Barton Le Clay

	Beaconsfield Old Town

	Berkhamsted

	Bix

	Bradenham

	Chalfont St Giles

	Chesham Bois

	Chorleywood

	Cookham

	Dunstable

	Edlesborough, Eaton Bray & Ivinghoe Aston

	Ewelme

	Fingest, Frieth & Skirmett

	Gaddesden, Great and Little

	Great Missenden

	Halton

	Hambleden

	Hampdens & Piggotts

	Henley-on-Thames

	High Wycombe Trail

	Hitchin

	Lane End & Wheeler End

	Marlow

	Marsworth

	Penn Wood

	Pitstone & Ivinghoe

	Princes Risborough

	Radnage

	Rickmansworth

	Ridgeway Path

	Sarratt

	Speen

	Stoke Row 1864-1999

	Stokenchurch

	Taplow

	The Lee

	Tring

	Watlington

	Wendover

	West Wycombe


Stokenchurch is about 8 miles north west of High Wycombe: the village is cut in half by the M40 and is surrounded by mixed farmland and woodlands. The photographs were taken in 2005-6. Click on any thumbnail to see enlarged photo. All photographs are copyright the photographer. They may be copied and reproduced by educational establishments only. In all other circumstances prior permission must be obtained from the website editor.

Stokenchurch

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Description	Hill Farm sits at the top of Aston Hill on the cross roads between the A40 and two minor roads to Kingston Blount and Christmas Common. The farm is one of a number that encircle Stokenchurch. Although the village is surrounded by green belt land, the building of the motorway has led to some infilling with a number of farms being sold and developed as small housing estates. These include Chalk Farm and Pigeon House Farm.
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Description	Telecom tower. For many people Stokenchurch is synonymous with the tower that can be seen more than 20 miles away when travelling south on the M40. In the 1950s plans were developed for a national network of microwave radio stations to be built and used in the event of a nuclear attack which had destroyed the, then, more traditional means of communication. The sites needed to be on high ground and one of these was to be at Stokenchurch. As the threat of cold war receded, priorities changed but the construction of the tower went ahead in the 1960s and it is now used for a range of telecommunication purposes. More information is available on the Internet on www.subbrit.org.uk.
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Description	Routes. There are five separate routes or roads in this picture. Apart from the M40, which is the most recent, the old road from Princes Risborough to Wallingford through Lewknor passes the four white houses in the middle ground. A little closer, the slip road to the M40 can just be seen at its junction with the realigned Watlington road (B 4007), which now by passes Lewknor. At this point, the new B 4007 follows the line of the now defunct Watlington to Princes Risborough railway. This was single track, with a small halt that served Aston Rowant and Lewknor. Services stopped in the 1950s and the track from Chinnor to Watlington lifted. The trees in the foreground mark the line of the Ridgeway, which runs from Avebury in Wiltshire to Tring at the eastern end of the Chilterns. This track has been used for centuries as a route for travellers, herdsmen, carriers and even soldiers during the English Civil War. The photograph was taken from Beacon Hill, which is on the edge of the Chiltern escarpment just over the border in Oxfordshire.
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Description	Early morning traffic on the M40, where it scythes its way through the Chiltern escarpment above Lewknor and on past Stokenchurch. The M40 makes the area accessible and conversely brings London and Oxford within easy reach. Beacon Hill is part of the Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve. A number of scarce plants can be seen on the reserve as well as many species of butterfly such as the silver spotted skipper and the chalkhill blue. The viewpoint at the top of the hill is also one of the best places to see the red kites, which were reintroduced to the area in 1989. At 700 feet, Stokenchurch is one of the highest villages on the recently designated 'Chiltern Way'. It boasts one of the densest populations of red kites in Europe.
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