Stoke Wake
All Saints, Stoke Wake
Stoke Wake is located in Dorset
Stoke Wake
Stoke Wake
Location within Dorset
Population60 [1]
OS grid referenceST764063
Civil parish
  • Stoke Wake
Unitary authority
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBlandford Forum
Postcode districtDT11
PoliceDorset
FireDorset and Wiltshire
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
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UK
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Dorset
50°51′26″N 2°20′15″W / 50.8571°N 2.3374°W / 50.8571; -2.3374

Stoke Wake is a hamlet[2] and civil parish, formerly part of the Whiteway hundred in north Dorset, England. It is situated under Bulbarrow Hill on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, west of Blandford Forum. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the parish population is 60.[1]

In 1086 Stoke Wake was recorded in the Domesday Book as Stoche;[3] it had 15 households, 4 ploughlands, 15 acres (6 hectares) of meadow and one mill. It was in the hundred of Hilton and the lord and tenant-in-chief was Shaftesbury Abbey.[4]

The parish church was built in 1872.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Parish Population Data". Dorset County Council. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  2. ^ Google Map
  3. ^ "Dorset S-Z". The Domesday Book Online. domesdaybook.co.uk. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  4. ^ "Place: Stoke [Wake]". Open Domesday. domesdaymap.co.uk. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  5. ^ North Dorset District Council (c. 1983). North Dorset District Official Guide. Home Publishing Co. Ltd. p. 47.


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