Open accessfree to visit at any reasonable time
Laid out in 1935 by the landscape architect Edward White, Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens were funded by local businessman Sir Noel Mobbs to protect the peace of the churchyard next door — the one where the poet Thomas Gray is buried, and which inspired his “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”. The gardens themselves are a quieter, formal design: clipped hedges and rose beds around a series of memorial garden rooms and columbaria, still used for remembrance today. Entry is free, and the gates are open every day, morning until early evening. Gray’s Monument Stoke Poges stands just north, across the fields.
