ABOUT US

 

STOKE GOLDINGTON

 

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 recent building of Milton Keynes,  a 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.

Development has been strictly controlled in the villages, by rules laid down in the North Buckinghamshire Structure Plan and later Village Appraisals, which created a “Conservation Area” in 1973  (but this protection is always in danger…)

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

Thatched cottages are  better maintained and there has has been some ‘sympathetic infilling’, but not much has changed.

An area situated in the countryside with 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 & home worker.

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

  • 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.     Click for Archive contents

Part of the  SGA Archive with Derek George, one of the founders

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.

Until 2020 we had around 45 members paying an annual subscription which was used to pay rent, speakers and for supplies.

After the pandemic, and the loss of many older residents able to attend in the evenings, this model is no longer possible so we now have a single charge for everyone for Events and for the occasional Speaker.

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

There have been many new families move into the village recently 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:-

UPDATED WEBSITE 2024 on

The original SGA website was set up by Derek George, one of the founders and mainstay of the Association, but hasn’t been updated since his sad death in 2012.

Recently we have decided  to try to refresh and update the old website.  We hope you will find it informative and interesting.

Copyright Statement: Unless acknowledged otherwise, the images and text used on this site are the copyright of Stoke Goldington Association. The Association encourages the use of the text and images for personal and educational work and is prepared to waive its copyright in these circumstances.         

 The Association reserves all its rights in regard to commercial reproduction. Requests for the use of Association images in commercial publications will be given sympathetic consideration.

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