Stoke Poges

[ stohk poh-jis ]

noun
  1. 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.

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How to use Stoke Poges in a sentence

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

    Fifty Years of Golf | Horace G. Hutchinson
  • It is a considerable change from Stoke Poges to Inneshmor, but only a poor soul would not like it for a period.

    The Happy Golfer | Henry Leach
  • 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.