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