Old Church Stoke Explained

Country:Wales
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Static Image Caption:View of the hamlet of Old Church Stoke
Coordinates:52.53°N -3.06°W
Official Name:Old Church Stoke
Community Wales:Churchstoke
Unitary Wales:Powys
Os Grid Reference:SO2894

Old Church Stoke is a village in the community of Churchstoke in Powys, Wales. Until 1974 it was in the county of Montgomeryshire.

The name, as a distinct settlement within the township and parish of Churchstoke, was first recorded in the mid-16th century.[1] The current village includes several timber-framed farmhouses of the 17th and 18th century, the former Oak Inn from the same period, and a 19th-century Methodist chapel.[1]

There was formerly a holy well, or "Lady well", in the village, which was dressed with flowers and rushes.[2]

There are several farms located in Old churchstoke, one being Upper Aldress, farmed by Robert Kinsey and his family

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/montgom/1069.htm Churchstoke Historic Landscape Characterisation
  2. Bird, A. History on the ground: an inventory of unrecorded material relating to the mid-Anglo-Welsh borderland, University of Wales Press, 1977, p.90