Stowe is a civil parish and former village about two miles (three kilometres) northwest of Buckingham in the unitary authority area of Buckinghamshire, England.

Stowe's toponym probably refers to an ancient holy place of great significance in Anglo-Saxon times.

[3] It listed William the Conqueror's half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux as the manor's feudal overlord and the Norman brothers-in-arms Robert D'Oyly and Roger d'Ivry as his tenants.

[3] Osney Abbey retained Stowe until it was forced to surrender its estates to the Crown in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539.

[3] In 1590 John Underhill, Bishop of Oxford, conveyed Stowe to Elizabeth I, who in the same year granted it to new secular owners.

The earliest mention of the parish church of the Assumption of the Blessèd Virgin Mary[4] is in Henry I's charter of 1130.

[3] Late in the 15th century both aisles were rebuilt and the Perpendicular Gothic nave clerestory and south porch were added.