Stoke Poges

[ stohk poh-jis ]

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noun

a village in S Buckinghamshire, in S England, W of London: the churchyard here is believed to be the setting of Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

Then again, giving the same odds of a half, we played a team of men against a team of ladies at Stoke Poges.

It is a considerable change from Stoke Poges to Inneshmor, but only a poor soul would not like it for a period.

Never was there a better instance of the art of forcibly turning a forest into a golf-course than is to be found at Stoke Poges.

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