Stoke Rivers

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Stoke Rivers
Devon

St Bartholomew's Church, Stoke Rivers
Location
Grid reference: SS633353
Location: 51°6’5"N, 3°57’14"W
Data
Postcode: EX32
Local Government

Stoke Rivers is a small village five miles north-east of Barnstaple, in northern Devon (within the county's Shirwell Hundred).

The wider parish of Stoke Rivers comprises the village itself as well as several scattered farmsteads.[1]

There is also the mediæval parish church of St Bartholomew and a small Baptist church.

The name derives from the Rivers family, who formerly owned the village.[2]

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Stoke Rivers)

References

  1. [1] "Tour Devon" (retrieved 15 October 2014)
  2. Information on Stoke Rivers  from GENUKI