Stowe
Stowe is a civil parish and former village about two miles northwest of Buckingham in the unitary authority area of Buckinghamshire, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Boycott, Dadford and Lamport. Stowe House is a Grade I listed country house in the parish and is occupied by Stowe School.Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Locality with 873 residents
- Description: civil parish and former village in Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Stowe, Buckinghamshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stowe House and Stowe Gardens.
Stowe House
Museum
Photo: Martinvl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stowe House is a Grade I listed country house in Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England. It is the home of the private Stowe School and is owned by the Stowe House Preservation Trust.
Stowe Gardens
Garden
Photo: Neoclassicist, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stowe Gardens, formerly Stowe Landscape Gardens, are extensive Grade I listed gardens and parkland in Buckinghamshire, England. Largely created in the 18th century, the gardens at Stowe are arguably the most significant example of the English landscape garden.
Stowe School
School
Photo: Kevin Gordon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stowe School is a public school for pupils aged 13–18 in the countryside of Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England. It was opened on 11 May 1923 at Stowe House, a Grade I Heritage Estate belonging to the British Crown.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dadford and Chackmore.
Dadford
Village
Dadford is a hamlet in the parish of Stowe, north Buckinghamshire, England. The hamlet is named Anglo Saxon in origin, meaning, Dodda's Ford in modern English.
Chackmore
Hamlet
Photo: Allan Friswell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chackmore is a hamlet in the parish of Radclive-cum-Chackmore, in north Buckinghamshire, England. The hamlet is approached using the avenue that links Buckingham with Stowe Park.
Lillingstone Dayrell
Village
Photo: David Hillas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lillingstone Dayrell is a village in the civil parish of Lillingstone Dayrell with Luffield Abbey, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is about three and a half miles north of Buckingham, eight miles west of Milton Keynes and five miles south of Towcester. Lillingstone Dayrell is situated 2 miles northeast of Stowe.
Stowe
- Categories: abandoned village and civil parish
- Location: Stowe, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Stowe” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ستو”
- Cebuano: “Stowe”
- Chinese: “Stowe”
- Chinese: “斯托 (白金汉郡)”
- Chinese: “斯托”
- Czech: “Stowe”
- Dutch: “Stowe”
- French: “Stowe”
- German: “Stowe”
- Greek: “Στόουβ”
- Hebrew: “בית סטואו”
- Hungarian: “Stowe”
- Irish: “Stowe”
- Italian: “Stowe (Buckinghamshire)”
- Italian: “Stowe”
- Japanese: “ストー (バッキンガムシャー)”
- Japanese: “ストウ (バッキンガムシャー)”
- Japanese: “ストウ・パーク”
- Japanese: “ストウ”
- Ladin: “Stowe (Buckinghamshire)”
- Ladin: “Stowe”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Stowe (Buckinghamshire)”
- Polish: “Stowe”
- Romanian: “Stowe”
- Russian: “Стоу”
- Spanish: “Jardín de Stowe”
- Spanish: “Stowe Buckinghamshire”
- Spanish: “Stowe Landscape Gardens”
- Spanish: “Stowe, Buckinghamshire”
- Spanish: “Stowe”
- Swedish: “Stowe, Buckinghamshire”
- Swedish: “Stowe”
- Turkish: “Stowe, Buckinghamshire”
- Welsh: “Stowe, Swydd Buckingham”
- Welsh: “Stowe”
- “Stowe”
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