| Official Name: | Stewkley |
| Static Image Name: | Stewkley StMichael SW.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | St Michael & All Angels parish church |
| Coordinates: | 51.9262°N -0.761°W |
| Label Position: | left |
| Population: | 1,840 |
| Population Ref: | (2011 Census)[1] |
| Os Grid Reference: | SP853261 |
| Civil Parish: | Stewkley |
| Unitary England: | Buckinghamshire |
| Lieutenancy England: | Buckinghamshire |
| Region: | South East England |
| Country: | England |
| Post Town: | LEIGHTON BUZZARD |
| Postcode Area: | LU |
| Postcode District: | LU7 |
| Dial Code: | 01525 |
| Constituency Westminster: | Buckingham |
| Website: | Stewkley Parish Council |
Stewkley is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. The village is about 5miles east of Winslow and about 4miles west of Leighton Buzzard. The civil parish includes the hamlets of North End and Stewkley Dean.
The toponym Stewkley is derived from the Old English for woodland clearing with tree stumps. The Domesday Book of 1086 records it as Stiuclai.
The principal manor in Stewkley was once held by the son of Geoffrey Chaucer, who was an occasional visitor to the village. The Church of England parish church of St Michael and All Angels is one of the least-altered of England's 6,000 Norman churches. There is a Methodist chapel in High Street South. St Michael's Church of England Combined School teaches children aged 4–11.
Stewkley has one of, if not, the longest village high streets in Britain at 2 miles long,[2] a title also claimed by Combe Martin in Devon, whose 1.5 mile (previously thought to be 2 miles) long high street is not as continuously populated as Stewkley's high street. Southeast of the village is Aylesbury Vale Golf Club.
In World War 2, the village was a popular destination for personnel serving at nearby RAF Wing.
In 1968 the Roskill Commission was charged with looking into finding a site for London's third airport. The report was published in 1970, with the proposal that Stewkley would be destroyed along with some other nearby villages. However two local residents, Desmond Fennell and Bill Manning, set up the Wing Airport Resistance Association (WARA), which successfully campaigned against the proposal.[3] A Monument, known as the Airport Monument and Spinney was erected in Stewkley to mark the successful campaign.[4]