A WELCOME

Stoke Goldington is a small village (Population 598 in 2021 census) situated on the northern most tip of the Buckinghamshire County border, four miles from Newport Pagnell and ten miles from the centre of Milton Keynes.

The recent building of Milton Keynes,  a new city with it’s fast road and rail commuter links, has inevitably brought change to the North Bucks area and to the mix of people who now live there.

Development has been strictly controlled in the villages by rules laid down in North Buckinghamshire Structure Plan and later Village Appraisals (but this is always in danger!)

The Stoke Goldington Association was founded in 1987 with the object of creating a village archive, not as a pressure group to resist change, but an association which records these changes, both past and present.

  • In 1830 Stoke Goldington was a staging post on the north south mail routes, having seven coaching inns but by 1845 all the business had disappeared with the development of railways and canals.
  • In the 1841 census there were  247 lace makers recorded, by 1891 there were only 27.

Over the last 100 years the appearance of the High Street has changed very little…

 

Thatched cottages are better maintained and there has been some ‘sympathetic infilling’ but not much has changed: it is the people that are different. An area situated in the countryside, which strictly controlled development is seen as a very desirable place to live.

Property prices reflect this and the socio-economic make up of the population has inevitably changed from rural to commuter.

Stoke Goldington has been closely linked to nearby GAYHURST village for generations, so the contents of the archive necessarily covers both villages, as well as information on the detached part of the Parish at EAKLEY.

A  list of the records held is contained in Archive Contents

 


The 1930 Photographs courtesy The Kitchener Collection, City Discovery Centre, Milton Keynes.

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