1870: An old man and two young girls in the lovely old porch of the Norman Saint Giles church in Stoke Poges, a village in the South Bucks district of Buckinghamshire, England. Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is believed to have been written in the churchyard.

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Location: Stoke Poges, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © De Luan / Alamy / Afripics
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