page_title: Stoke Row
section_title: Maharajah's Well
hierarchical_section_title: Stoke Row / Maharajah's Well
caption_attribution_description: English: Maharajahs Well cupola.
context_page_description: Stoke Row is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills, about 5 miles west of Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire and about 9 miles north of Reading. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 651.
context_section_description: Edward Anderton Reade, the local squire at Ipsden, had worked with the Maharajah of Benares in India in the mid-nineteenth century. Under Reade's leadership, a well was sunk in 1831 to aid the community in Azamgarh.
  Reade left the area in 1860, and after his departure, the Maharajah decided to make a contribution to Reade's home area in England. Recalling Reade's help in creating the Azimgurgh well in 1831 and his stories of water deprivation in his home area of Ipsden the Maharajah commissioned the well at Stoke Row and it was sunk in 1863.
  The Wallingford firm of RJ and H Wilder made the well mechanism in 1863 and completed the pavilion over the well in 1864. The pavilion is open-sided with a cupola on top and a golden-coloured elephant above the well mechanism. The well and pavilion can be seen in a small park on the north side of the main road through Stoke Row village.
caption: Maharajah's well cupola with wording "His Highness the Maharajah of Benares"
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