Businesses and Organizations
Stoke Goldington is a small village in Buckinghamshire four miles from Newport Pagnell. The Stoke Goldington Association was founded in 1987 with the object of creating a village archive. It meets in The Village Reading Rooms on the last Wednesday of each month. The Archive is stored in The Reading Rooms.
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There has been a community at Simpson since Saxon times. By the 20th century Simpson was a small village with about sixty homes. With the advent of the new town of Milton Keynes, Simpson was one of the first areas to experience development and growth.
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Sherington Historical Society was founded in 2000. Its archives are housed in the Village Hall, which is also the venue for the Society’s regular monthly meetings.
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The remains of St Peters church and its walled graveyard lie at the north eastern edge of the new Stanton Low Country Park, near Great Linford, Milton Keynes.
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The church dates from Norman times and is designated Grade I. It is largely Perpendicular in appearance, with some Decorated windows and doorways. The interior has very complete medieval fabric, good medieval roofs, the very fine tomb of Richard, Lord Grey de Wilton, and other interesting monuments.
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The Society was formed in 2005 with the objectives of “studying, sharing, recording and publishing matters relating to the history of the Parish of Roade and surrounding areas of Northamptonshire”.
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The station building is built in the distinctive Victorian Gothic ‘Cottage Orné’ style, and the restoration has won a number of awards. Facilities include the Tea Room, the original Victorian (1846) Booking Office hosting a range of temporary exhibitions throughout the year, a Gift Shop and Tourist Information Point and a meeting room for hire.
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Rectory Cottages was built in 1475 – 1476 and is traditionally attributed to the family de Grey, who held the manor of Bletchley from about 1220 to 1610. It has a fine mediaeval hammerbeamed hall. Today Rectory Cottages is the village hall, used by many local societies, clubs and groups as their meeting place.
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The Trust aims to locate, preserve, renovate and exhibit the equipment and data, past and present, of still and moving images. Run by a mix of respected industry professionals and cinema enthusiasts, the trust boasts a world-class collection of cinema technology artifacts and a growing digital archive.
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The University Archive holds historical materials of the Open University and research collections relevant to many fields of research, in particular modern political history, distance education, history of management, history of mathematics and systems behaviour.
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