Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STOKE-WAKE

STOKE-WAKE, a parish in Sturminster district, Dorset; 5½ miles S of Sturminster r. station. Post town, Blandford. Acres, 1,038. Rated property, £1,225. Pop., 112. Houses, 23. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £156. Patron, H. K. Seymer, Esq. The church is good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Stoke Wake CP/AP       Sturminster RegD/PLU       Dorset AncC
Place: Stoke Wake

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