Stoke Goldington is a small village (Population 598 in the 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 building of Milton Keynes new city, with its fast road and rail commuter links, has inevitably brought massive change to the North Bucks area, and to the mix of people who now live there.

Previous development in this rural area was strictly controlled by rules originally laid down in the North Buckinghamshire Structure Plan in the 1950s.

There were later Village Appraisals of Stoke Goldington  which created a “Conservation Area” in 1973  but this protection is  increasingly under threat by the planners’ wish to expand the new city further…

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S T O K E  G O L D I N G T O N  A S S O C I A T I O N

The Stoke Goldington Association (SGA) was set up in 1987 to record the changes that the new Milton Keynes City would inevitably bring as it developed, as well as documenting  Local History and the Changes to the area from previous times eg..

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

The SGA now has an impressive Archive of local history information on places, people and events , housed in the communal Reading Rooms in the High Street and available to members of the local community for interest and research. read more…

Part of the  SGA Archive with Derek George

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.

The SGA is not a Lobbying or Protest organization, although the information contained in our archive has been used, on occasion,  to settle some local issues.

We occasionally hold Open Days  on Saturday mornings to encourage residents past and present  to explore the contents of the archive, for research and general interest.

Recently there have been many new families moving  into the village and they find this a useful introduction to the history of their new homes and the surrounding area.

For further information on the Association, or the contents of the Archive,  please contact either:-