Stony Stratford

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Stony Stratford

Total population

7,736

Coordinates52.06°, -0.85°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Stony Stratford is a market town in Buckinghamshire and a constituent town of Milton Keynes, England. It is located on Watling Street, historically the Roman road from London to Chester. It is also a civil parish with a town council in the City of Milton Keynes. It is about 5 miles (8 km) from the city centre, in the north-west corner of the Milton Keynes urban area, just across the River Great Ouse from Northamptonshire. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 7,872.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Elizabeth Woodville

Queen consort of England

John Habgood

Archbishop of York; Bishop of Durham; British Anglican bishop and life peer (1927-2019)

Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers

English nobleman, courtier, and writer (1442-1483); younger brother of Elizabeth Woodville

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George Claridge Druce

English botanist (1850–1932)

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Bertram Bowyer, 2nd Baron Denham

British peer and politician (born 1927)

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Sir John Woodville

English noble; younger brother of Elizabeth Woodville

Frank Cadogan Cowper

British artist (1877-1958)

George Sutherland

Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, United States Senator, member of the United States House of Representatives (1862-1942)

Lawrence Humphrey

English theologian

Theophilus Eaton

Founder of New Haven, Connecticut, first governor of the New Haven Colony

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Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers

English earl; younger brother of Elizabeth Woodville

Gordon Moakes

British musician

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Chris Horsman

English rugby union footballer and coach

Richard Cox

Bishop of Ely

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Reis Ashraf

Pakistani footballer

Andrew Pakes

British politician (born 1973)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in England

• Wolverton
  1.8 mi away · pop. 12,492
• Buckingham
  7 mi away
• Olney
  9.3 mi away
• Rothersthorpe
  11.1 mi away
• Ampthill
  15.4 mi away
• Flitwick
  15.7 mi away
• Bicester
  16.8 mi away
• Tring
  19.9 mi away
• Thame
  22 mi away
• Burton Latimer
  22.5 mi away
• Berkhamsted
  23.8 mi away
• Desborough
  26.6 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Stony Stratford

Search results from Open Library.

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