June 2025

Stokenchurch is a Chiltern Hills village in Buckinghamshire, near to the border with Oxfordshire, that straddles the London to Oxford A40 road which-until the coming of the M40 motorway in the later 1960s-was the principal route between the two cities.

The Oxford bus company (City of Oxford Motor Services) commenced a bus service between Oxford and High Wycombe in 1923. In 1924 they build a bus garage in Wycombe Road, Stokenchurch to support a growing number of bus services centred on Stokenchurch.

The garage was sold to the Thames Valley Traction Company in 1937, together with the local Stokenchurch services. However, the Oxford company continued to use the garage for their through High Wycombe to Oxford service and one to Thame, where they had another garage.The picture shows a front view of the garage in the late 1930s with an Oxford AEC Regent (No. G127) and a Thames Valley Leyland Titan TD5 (No. 339) on the forecourt.

Trust Supporters can find out more, including a detailed plan of the site taken from the company property register (also in the TV&GWOT archive), in the Trust magazine To and Fro' No. 040

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Archive Item of the Month, June 2025