Stoke Damerel
| Stoke Damerel | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 Stoke Damerel church | |
| Location | |
| Location: | 50°22’48"N, 4°9’46"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 13,861 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Plymouth |
| Postcode: | PL3 |
| Dialling code: | 01752 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Plymouth |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport |
Stoke Damerel or simply Stoke is an ancient parish in the Roborough Hundred of Devon, that forms a suburb of Devonport and latterly Plymouth.
Stoke is now densely built up with family houses and bisected by the main railway line from Paddington to Penzance. The parish church is notable not only for its evolving architecture, but also its contents and historical connections. The area has been prosperous for several hundred years, and there are some distinguished private houses dating to Georgian and Victorian times (several of which feature in Nikolaus Pevsner's South Devon: Penguin Books, 1952, content (revised and enlarged) issued New Haven: Yale U. P. 1989. ISBN 0-300-09596-1).
Stoke Damerel Primary School educates approximately 320 pupils of ages 4–11.[2]
Notable people
- Mary Fergusson (1914 – 1997), British engineer, and the first female fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers
- Captain Tobias Furneaux (1735 – 1781), a Royal Navy officer and the first man to circumnavigate the globe in both directions.
- Rev John Hawker
- John Scott - Robert Falcon Scott's father
- Thomas B. Jeffery, inventor, bicycle and vehicle manufacturer. Founder of the Brand name "Rambler".
References
- ↑ "Plymouth ward 2011". https://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13690547&c=PL5+1LJ&d=14&e=62&g=6391476&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1428260668260&enc=1. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
- ↑ Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills. "Stoke Damerel Primary School". http://ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_providers/full/(urn)/113287/(type)/4096/(typename)/Primary%20schools.
Outside links
- "GENUKI account of Stoke Damerel". http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/StokeDamerel/. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
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