In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stoke Bliss like this:
STOKE-BLISS, a parish in Tenbury district; comprising 1,148 acres in Herefordshire, and Little Kyre hamlet of 930 acres in Worcestershire; and lying 5½ miles SE of Tenbury r. station. Post town, Tenbury. Rated property, £2,179. Pop., 298. Houses, 70. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £374.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is tolerable. Charities, £21.
Stoke Bliss through time
Stoke Bliss is now part of Malvern Hills district. Click here for graphs and data of how Malvern Hills has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Stoke Bliss itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Stoke Bliss, in Malvern Hills and Herefordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10145
Date accessed: 28th April 2024
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