Stoke Prior, Herefordshire Explained

Official Name:	Stoke Prior
Country:	England
Region:	West Midlands
Coordinates:	52.206°N -2.702°W
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Static Image:	Stoke Prior church - geograph.org.uk - 1023349.jpg

Stoke Prior is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ford and Stoke Prior in Herefordshire, England, and is 2miles south-east from Leominster.^[1]

The village' population is included with Ford and Stoke Prior;^[2] at the 2011 census this was 364.^[3]

Stoke Prior Community Primary School has three classes for children from the ages of 4 to 11. In a 2007 Ofsted inspection, the Overall effectiveness of the school was rated as Grade 1 (Outstanding).^[4]

At the Stoke Prior Halt railway station, Stoke Prior was served by the now closed Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Railway.

In 1961 the parish had a population of 249.^[5] On 1 April 1987 the parish was abolished and merged with Ford to form "Ford & Stoke Prior", part also went to Leominster and part also went to form Docklow & Hampton Wafer.^[6]

External links

• Stoke Prior Community Primary School

Notes and References

1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 149 Hereford & Leominster (Bromyard & Ledbury). 9780319229538 . Ordnance Survey. 2009.
2. Web site: Ordnance Survey Election Maps. www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk . Ordnance Survey . 18 February 2016.
3. Web site: Civil Parish population 2011. 2 November 2015.
4. Web site: Edwards . Paul . Inspection report: Stoke Prior Primary School . . 2007-02-21 . pdf . 2009-03-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111004041133/http://www.stokeprior.hereford.sch.uk/DOCS/ofsted07.pdf . 2011-10-04 .
5. Web site: Population statistics Stoke Prior CP/Ch through time. A Vision of Britain through Time. 25 August 2023.
6. Web site: Leominster Registration District. UKBMD. 25 August 2023.