sentences:  The population of the parish was 1,193 in the 2001 census.This increased to 1,368 in the 2011 census 
  
  The remains of a late Norman period motte-and-bailey castle known as Penstowe Castle are located 500 metres west of the village.Further west, at Stowe is the site of Stowe House, the grand mansion of John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, built in 1680 but demolished in 1739