Stoke Wake

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Stoke Wake
Dorset
All Saints, Stoke Wake.JPG
All Saints, Stoke Wake
Location
Grid reference: ST764063
Location: 50°51’26"N, 2°20’15"W
Data
Population: 60  (2013 est.)
Post town: Blandford Forum
Postcode: DT11
Local Government
Council: Dorset
Parliamentary
constituency:
North Dorset

Stoke Wake is a hamlet in northern Dorset, in the county's in Whiteway Hundred. It sits under Bulbarrow Hill on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, west of Blandford Forum. A 2013 mid-year estimate of the parish population is 60.

In the Domesday Book of 1086, Stoke Wake is recorded as Stoche:[1] it had 15 households, 4 ploughlands, 15 acres of meadow and one mill and the lord and tenant-in-chief was Shaftesbury Abbey.[2]

The parish church was built in 1872.[3]

References

  1. "Dorset S-Z". The Domesday Book Online. domesdaybook.co.uk. http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/dorset3.html. Retrieved 6 February 2015. 
  2. "Place: Stoke [Wake"]. Open Domesday. domesdaymap.co.uk. http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/ST7606/stoke-wake/. Retrieved 6 February 2015. 
  3. North Dorset District Council (c. 1983). North Dorset District Official Guide. Home Publishing Co. Ltd. p. 47.